Nobel prize winner Samuel Beckett is one of the most
profoundly original writers of our century. He gives expression to
the anguish and isolation of the individual consciousness with a
purity and minimalism that have altered the shape of world
literature. A tremendously influential poet and dramatist, Beckett
spoke of his prose fiction as the "important writing," the medium
in which his ideas are most powerfully distilled. Here, for the
first time, his short prose is gathered in a definitive, complete
volume by leading Beckett scholar S. E. Gontarski. In the
introduction, Gontarski discusses Beckett''s creative roots in the
tradition of Irish storytelling and the perpetual evolution of his
writing as he "pushed beyond recognizable external reality and
discrete, recognizable literary characters, replacing them with
something like naked consciousness or pure being." From the 1929
"Assumption," published in transition magazine when Beckett was
twenty-three, to the aptly named "Stirrings Still," written when he
was eighty-two, and including a new translation of "The Image" as
well as the newly translated and previously unpublished "The
Cliff," Gontarski has arranged Beckett''s work into a smooth
chronology that suggests, as he puts it, "Beckett''s own view of his
art, that it is all part of a continuous process, a series."
Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett is one of the most
profoundly original writers of our century. A tremendously
influential poet and dramatist, Beckett spoke of his prose fiction
as the "important writing, " the medium in which his ideas were
most powerfully distilled. Here, for the first time, his short
prose is gathered in a definitive, complete volume by leading
Beckett scholar S.E. Gontarski. 336 pp.
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