Beckett, Samuel
Summary: This volume is an absurdist play in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait endlessly and in vain for the arrival of someone named Godot. They claim he's an acquaintance but in fact hardly know him, admitting that they would not recognize him when they do see him. To occupy the time they eat, sleep, converse, argue, sing, play games, exercise, swap hats, and contemplate suicide --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 842.914 BECBeckett, Samuel
Contents: Molly / translated from the French by Patrick Bowles, in collaboration with the author -- Malone dies / translated from the French by the author -- The unnamable / translated from the French by the author.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 1955
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BECBeckett, Samuel
Summary: As Vladimir and Estragon await the arrival of Godot, they discuss their lives and consider hanging themselves, but choose to wait for Godot instead, in the hope that he can tell them what their purpose is.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Weidenfeld 1982
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 842.91 BECBeckett, Samuel
Summary: "In 1933, Chatto & Windus agreed to publish Samuel Beckett's More Pricks Than Kicks, a collection of ten interrelated stories, which was his first published work of fiction. At his editor's request, Beckett penned an additional story, "Echo's Bones," to serve as the final piece. However, he had already killed off several of the characters--including the protagonist, Belacqua--throughout the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BECBeckett, Samuel
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press : distributed by Random House 1975
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BeckettSummary: Explores the making and meaning of Film, a 1965 short film starring Buster Keaton, that was written by Samuel Beckett, directed by Alan Schneider, and produced by Barney Rosset. Topics covered include the circumstances leading to the film's production, the production process itself, and the film's critical reception. Includes outtakes, never-before-heard audio recordings of production meetings,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NOTSummary: A man goes to considerable lengths to avoid being seen. Beckett's first venture into the film medium is a one-character production without dialogue, based on Berkeley's theory Esse est percipi, or "to be is to be perceived."
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FILVarious authors.
Contents: To the lighthouse / Virginia Woolf. -- The metamorphosis / Franz Kafka. -- The prussian officer / D. H. Lawrence. -- The waste land / T.S. Eliot. -- Mourning becomes electra / Eugene O'Neill. -- The great gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald. -- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner. -- Mother courage and her children / Bertolt Brecht. -- The short happy life of Francis Macomber / Ernest Hemingway. --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: EncyclopŒdia Britannica 1990