![]() Above all, it portrays Beckett himself, the poet of despair, the angular, enigmatic artist who, in the words of his Nobel Prize citation, "has transmuted the destitution of modern man into his exaltation." The book tells of his relationships with publishers, actors, directors, and friends. SAMUEL BECKETT chronicles Beckett's tumultuous relationship with his family, recounts the psychosomatic illnesses that have often kept him from writing, and traces (where they exist) the autobiographical strains in his work. Beckett's life has been as rich as his writing is spare, and Deirdre Bair tells his story superbly: the upper-middle-class Irish childhood the early years in Paris and Beckett's complex relationship to Joyce the psychological anguish of his apprenticeship, poured out by Beckett in more than 300 remarkable, heretofore-unknown letters to a confidant, Thomas McGreevy Beckett's heroic service with the French Resistance, also unknown till now "the siege in the room," that extraordinary period after the Second World War during which Beckett created the first masterpieces that would make him world famous Beckett's increasing involvement with the theatre and his desperate attempts to guard his privacy against the encroachments of celebrity. A monumental work of scholarship - arguably the most important book about Beckett ever published - SAMUEL BECKETT is also fascinating reading. ![]() SAMUEL BECKETT is the first biography of the Nobel Prizewinning novelist and playwright. ![]()
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