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  • Beckett's Friendship

    by André Bernold, John Minihan ...
    Translated by Max McGuinness ...
    'Despite his deep sense of privacy, Beckett's persona has been so widely written about that it has become unavoidably mixed up in our imagination with what Bernold calls his "creatures". Whether or not Barthes and Foucault were right to dismiss the figure of the author, when confronted with Vladimir wincing or Krapp hunched over his tape recorder or Molloy resting on his bicycle, one's mind always ... Read more

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  • Beckett's Friendship

    by André Bernold ...
    Translated by Max McGuinness ...
    'Despite his deep sense of privacy, Beckett's persona has been so widely written about that it has become unavoidably mixed up in our imagination with what Bernold calls his "creatures". Whether or not Barthes and Foucault were right to dismiss the figure of the author, when confronted with Vladimir wincing or Krapp hunched over his tape recorder or Molloy resting on his bicycle, one's mind always ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Irish Proust

    Cultural Crossings from Beckett to McGahern

    Edited by Max McGuinness, Michael Cronin ...
    Series series Historicizing Modernism
    This collection of essays is the first book devoted to exploring Marcel Proust's influence on Irish literature and Irish themes within his work. Featuring contributions from eleven scholars of French and Irish studies, The Irish Proust reveals a surprising textual dimension of Proust's novel and traces the enduring legacy of his work throughout modern Irish letters.Proust's work, which was banned ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

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  • The Theatre of the Absurd

    by Martin Esslin ...
    In 1953, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot premiered at a tiny avant-garde theatre in Paris; within five years, it had been translated into more than twenty languages and seen by more than a million spectators. Its startling popularity marked the emergence of a new type of theatre whose proponents—Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, Pinter, and others—shattered dramatic conventions and paid scant attention ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A Beckett Canon

    by Ruby Cohn ...
    Series series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
    Samuel Beckett is unique in literature. Born and educated in Ireland, he lived most of his life in Paris. His literary output was rendered in either English or French, and he often translated one to the other, but there is disagreement about the contents of his bilingual corpus. A Beckett Canon by renowned theater scholar Ruby Cohn offers an invaluable guide to the entire corpus, commenting on ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Translating Milan Kundera

    by Michelle WOODS ...

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  • This Little Art

    by Kate Briggs ...
    An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs's This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading, writing and living with the works of others. Taking her own experience of translating Roland Barthes's lecture notes as a starting point, the author threads various stories together to give us this ... Read more

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  • Before Auschwitz

    Irène Némirovsky and the Cultural Landscape of Inter-war France

    by Angela Kershaw ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    This book analyses Irene Némirovsky’s literary production in its relationship to the literary and cultural context of the inter-war period in France. It examines topics of central importance to our understanding of the literary field in France in the period, such as: the close relationship between politics and literature; the historical, political, cultural and personal legacies of the First World ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Baudelaire Fractal

    by Lisa Robertson ...
    The debut novel by acclaimed poet Lisa Robertson, in which a poet realizes she's written the works of Baudelaire.One morning, Hazel Brown awakes in a badly decorated hotel room to find that she’s written the complete works of Charles Baudelaire. In her bemusement the hotel becomes every cheap room she ever stayed in during her youthful perambulations in 1980s Paris. This is the legend of a she ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Marcel Proust

    by Adam Watt ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time, 1913–27) changed the course of modern narrative fiction. This Introduction provides an account of Proust's life, the socio-historical and cultural contexts of his work and an assessment of his early works. At its core is a volume-by-volume study of In Search of Lost Time, which attends to its remarkable superstructure, as well as to ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Complete Short Prose of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1989

    by Samuel Beckett ...
    Series series Beckett, Samuel
    Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett was one of the most profoundly original writers of the 20th century. He gave 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 he ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Marguerite Duras

    Apocalyptic Desires

    by Leslie Hill ...
    Marguerite Duras is France's best-known and most controversial contemporary woman writer. Duras' influence extends from her early novels of the 1950's to her radically innovative experimental autobiographical text of the 1980's The LoverLeslie Hill's book throws new light on Duras' relationship to feminism, psychoanalysis, sexuality, literature, film, politics, and the media. Feted by Kristeva, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD