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This new edition brings together all of Becketts dramatic writings for radio, television and film, offering works which range from eloquent comic naturalism to an eviscerated and pared-down symbolism

Happy Days was written in 1960 and first produced in London at the Royal Court Theatre in November 1962.WINNIE: [ . . .] Well anyway - this man Shower - or Cooker - no matter - and the woman - hand in hand - in the other hands bags - kind of big brown grips - standing there gaping at me [...] - Whats she doing? he says - Whats the idea? he says - stuck up to her diddies in the bleeding ground - coarse fellow - What does it mean? he says - Whats it meant to mean? - and so on - lot more stuff like that - usual drivel - Do you hear me? He says - I do, she says, God help me - What do you mean, he says, God help you? (stops filing nails,raiseshead, gazes front.) And you, she says, whats the idea of you, she says, what are you meant to mean?

The iconic trilogy of novels by the era-defining Nobel laureate, relaunched for a new generation.I cant go on, Ill go on. Molloy: a sordid vagrant riding his bicycle through the countryside, sucking stones, on a quest for his mother. Moran: a private detective sent on his trail, investigating his crimes - but soon to deteriorate alongside him.Malone: an octogenarian man on his deathbed, naked in piles of blankets, wiling away the time with stories - writing, reminiscing, raging, surviving.The Unnameable: an armless and legless creature from a nameless place, weeping and watching in his urn, orbited by visitors outside a chop-house.Together, these selves speak, debate, exist: the prose as alive, or more, than them.The master innovator of them all.Guardian

Written over three months in 1946, Mercier and Camier was Becketts first post-war work, and his first novel in French. He came to regard it as a practice piece, and set it aside to write his trilogy. Mercier et Camier was finally published in 1970, and in Becketts English translation four years later. The eponymous heroes tramp around a city, then out of it, then back again. They are aimless, but there is something elusive that they should be doing. They arrange meetings, they drink, they argue, they discuss being shot of each other. They are preoccupied by the weather, by provisions, by a raincoat, by an umbrella, by a bicycle...All of these ingredients in the later work are accompanied here, fleetingly, by those things in Beckett that we know but cannot really name, those things that occupy so much of the trilogy. Intangible things, traps in the mind, that voice we hear, the stop-start understanding, the ongoing bewilderment, the fear. (Keith Ridgeway). George, said Camier, five sandwiches, four wrapped and one on the side. You see, he said, turning graciously to Mr Conaire, I think of everything. For the one I eat here will give me the strength to get back with the four others. Sophistry, said Mr Conaire. You set off with your five, wrapped, feel faint, open up, take one out, eat, recuperate, push on with the others. For all response, Camier began to eat. Youll spoil him, said Mr Conaire. Yesterday cakes, today sandwiches, tomorrow crusts and Thursday stones. Mustard, said Camier.

Becketts first literary landmark (St Petersburg Times) is a wonderfully savoury introduction to the Nobel Prize-winning author. Written in 1932, when the twenty-six-year-old Beckett was struggling to make ends meet, the novel offers a rare and revealing portrait of the artist as a young man. When submitted to several publishers, all of them found it too literary, too scandalous or too risky; it was only published posthumously in 1992. As the story begins, Belacqua - a young version of Molloy, whose love is divided between two women, Smeraldina-Rima and the little Alba - wrestles with his lusts and learning across vocabularies and continents, before a final "relapse into Dublin" (New Yorker). Youthfully exuberant and Joycean in tone, Dream is a work of extraordinary virtuosity.

En este libro se reúnen algunos de los textos críticos que Samuel Beckett escribió sobre autores y artistas que admiraba. Aparece su diatriba juvenil a favor de la obra de James Joyce; un extenso e intenso ensayo sobre Proust; los humoristicos y certeros dialogos sobre arte contemporaneo con Georges Duthuit, y dos emocionantes homenajes para sus amigos pintores, Jack B. Yeats hermano del poeta y Avigdor Arikha. Escritos directamente en ingles o traducidos por Beckett del frances, en estos ensayos podemos seguir la evolucion estetica, entre 1929 y 1966, de una de las mentes y escrituras mas importantes del siglo XX.

Molloy es el primer título de la trilogía, -que se completará con Malone muere y El innombrable-, donde Samuel Beckett inició su andadura en lengua francesa. Beckett describe aquí la búsqueda de la identidad imposible, crea unos personajes que, escindidos en su interior, luchan por afirmar su existencia. Asi Molloy, con el fin de consolidar su personalidad y completarse a si mismo, debera encontrar a su madre, al igual que Moran, quien, en la segunda parte de la novela, tendra que encontrar a Molloy para completarse a su vez a si mismo. Tanto en Molloy como en el resto de sus novelas, la ruptura de las reglas de narracion clasicas es una necesidad inevitable, pues la estructura realista desaparece al mismo tiempo que se agota en sus personajes el deseo de alcanzar una meta o de ver consumada su busqueda. Punto de partida de sus creaciones posteriores, Molloy reune en sus paginas todas las señas de identidad del mundo beckettiano y constituye una de las expresiones literarias mas hondas de nuestro tiempo.

Primera de las novelas de la gran trilogía que completan "Malone muere" y "El innombrable", publicadas también en esta colección, Molloy constituye el punto de arranque de la etapa en que, tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) abandona el ingles en favor del frances como lengua literaria y ahonda en la vision tragica del mundo contemporaneo a traves de imagenes en las que lo grotesco sirve para potenciar al maximo el patetismo y desolacion de la vida humana. La enajenacion, la soledad, la falta de identidad y el anonimato condenan a los personajes del novelista irlandes a una lucha sin sentido con su propia existencia, para la que ni siquiera la aniquilacion final de la muerte constituye ya una esperanza.Primera de las novelas de la gran trilogía que completan "Malone muere" y "El innombrable", publicadas también en esta colección, Molloy constituye el punto de arranque de la etapa en que, tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) abandona el ingles en favor del frances como lengua literaria y ahonda en la vision tragica del mundo contemporaneo a traves de imagenes en las que lo grotesco sirve para potenciar al maximo el patetismo y desolacion de la vida humana. La enajenacion, la soledad, la falta de identidad y el anonimato condenan a los personajes del novelista irlandes a una lucha sin sentido con su propia existencia, para la que ni siquiera la aniquilacion final de la muerte constituye ya una esperanza.

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