* Samuel Beckett - Nobel Prize in Literature, 1969 (62 books)
SAMUEL BECKETT (1906 – 1989) , an Irish avant-garde playwright, poet, novelist, theatre director, and literary translator, was unquestionably among the most influential writers of the 20th century. Best known for his critically acclaimed play WAITING FOR GODOT (1953), his literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal and tragicomic experiences of life, often coupled with black comedy and nonsense. Beckett's work became increasingly minimalist as his career progressed, involving more aesthetic and linguistic experimentation, with techniques of stream of consciousness repetition and self-reference. He is considered one of the last modernist writers, and one of the key figures in what Martin Esslin called the Theatre of the Absurd. He was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his writing, which — in new forms for the novel and drama — in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation."
Beckett’s writing reveals his own immense learning. It is full of subtle allusions to a multitude of literary sources as well as to a number of philosophical and theological writers. The dominating influences on his thought were undoubtedly the Italian poet Dante, the French philosopher René Descartes, the 17th-century Dutch philosopher Arnold Geulincx — a pupil of Descartes who dealt with the question of how the physical and the spiritual sides of man interact — and, finally, his fellow Irishman and revered friend, James Joyce.
Of all the English-language modernists, Beckett's work arguably represented the most sustained attack on the realist tradition. He opened up the possibility of theatre and fiction that dispense with conventional plot and the unities of time and place to focus on essential components of the human condition. He has had a wider influence on experimental writing since the 1950s, from the Beat generation to the happenings of the 1960s and after.
The following books are in ePub and/or PDF format as indicated:
== DRAMATIC WORKS ==
* All That Fall & Other Plays for Radio/Screen (Faber, 2012) – ePub * Breath and Other Shorts (Faber, 1971) – PDF * Collected Shorter Plays (Grove, 2010) – ePub + PDF * Complete Dramatic Works (Faber, 2012) – ePub * Eleutheria [tr. Brodsky] (Foxrock, 1995) – PDF * Eleutheria [tr. Wright] (Faber, 2019) – ePub * Endgame [ed. McDonald] (Faber, 2012) – ePub * Endgame & Act Without Words I (Grove, 2009) – ePub + PDF * Ends and Odds: Nine Dramatic Pieces (Grove, 2007) – ePub * Happy Days: A Play in Two Acts (Grove, 2013) – ePub + PDF * Krapp's Last Tape & Other Dramatic Pieces (Grove, 2009) – ePub + PDF * Rockabye and Other Short Pieces (Grove, 2007) – ePub * Waiting for Godot (Grove, 2011) – ePub + PDF * Worstward Ho (Grove, 1983) – PDF
== NOVELS ==
* Comment C'est / How It Is [ed. O'Reilly] (Routledge, 2001) – ePub * Dream of Fair to Middling Women (Arcade, 1993) – PDF * Dream of Fair to Middling Women [ed. O’Brien] (Faber, 2020) – ePub * How It Is (Calder, 1996) – PDF^ * How It Is (Grove, 2007) – ePub * How It Is [ed. O'Reilly] (Faber, 2012) – ePub * Malone Dies (Faber, 2010) – ePub + PDF * Malone Dies [ed. Boxall] (Faber, 2012) – ePub * Mercier and Camier (Grove, 2011) – ePub + PDF^ * Mercier and Camier [ed. Kennedy] (Faber, 2012) – ePub * Molloy (Grove, 2007) – ePub * Molloy [ed. Weller] (Faber, 2012) – ePub * Murphy (Grove, 2011) – ePub + PDF^ * Murphy [ed. Mays] (Faber, 2012) – ePub * Three Novels (Calder, 1994) – PDF* * Three Novels (Grove, 1959) – PDF^ * Three Novels (Grove, 2009) – ePub * The Unnamable [ed. Connor] (Faber, 2012) – ePub + PDF * Watt (Calder, 1963) – PDF^ * Watt (Grove, 2009) – ePub * Watt [ed. Ackerley] (Faber, 2012) – ePub
== SHORT PROSE ==
* As the Story Was Told: Uncollected & Late Prose (Calder, 1990) – PDF^ * Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho... (Faber, 2012) – ePub * Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989 [ed. Gontarski] (Grove, 2007) – ePub * Dante and the Lobster (Faber, 2019) – ePub * Echo's Bones (Grove, 2014) – ePub * The Expelled, The Calmative, The End, First Love (Faber, 2012) – ePub * First Love and Other Shorts (Grove, 2007) – ePub + PDF * Ill Seen Ill Said (Grove, 1981) – PDF * More Pricks Than Kicks (Grove, 2007) – ePub + PDF^ * Nohow On: Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho (Grove, 2014) – ePub * Stories and Texts for Nothing (Grove, 2007) – ePub * Texts for Nothing & Other Short Prose, 1950-1976 (Faber, 2010) – ePub
== POETRY ==
* Collected Poems in English and French (Grove, 2007) – ePub + PDF^ * Collected Poems: Critical Edition [ed. Lawlor] (Grove, 2014) – PDF * Selected Poems, 1930-1989 [ed. Wheatley] (Faber, 2012) – ePub
== NON-FICTION ==
* Disjecta: Miscellaneous Writings (Grove, 2007) – ePub * Our Exagmination Round His Factification... [contrib.] (ND, 1972) – PDF^ * Proust and Three Dialogues (Calder, 1987) – PDF^
== LETTERS ==
* Letters of Samuel Beckett: Vol. I, 1929-1940 (Cambridge, 2009) – PDF^ * No Author Better Served [ed. Harmon] (Harvard, 1998) – PDF
== TRANSLATIONS ==
* Anthology of Mexican Poetry [ed. Paz] (Indiana, 1965) – PDF^ * Beckett in Black and Red: Translations for 'Negro' (Kentucky, 2000) – PDF
== OTHER ==
* Beckett's Dream Notebook [ed. Pilling] (1999) – PDF * Beckett Remembering Remembering Beckett (2011) – ePub + PDF^ * Conversations With & About Beckett [ed. Gussow] (Grove, 1996) – PDF * Dear Mr. Beckett [Barney Rosset] (Opus, 2017) – ePub * Film: Complete Scenario and Illustrations (Grove, 1969) – PDF * I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A SB Reader [ed. Seaver] (Grove, 2007) – ePub * Nobel Prize Library, Vol. 3 [excerpt] (Gregory, 1971) – PDF * Poems, Short Fiction, Criticism (Grove, 2006) – PDF^
== BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ==
* Dramatic Works of SB: Selective Bibliography [Carpenter] (2011) – PDF * SB: A Bibliography: Part I, 1929-1950 [Breon Mitchell] (2021)
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