ebooks The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Beckett (Cambridge Introductions to Literature) by Ronan McDonald in Arts-Photography

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This is an eloquent and accessible introduction to one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. This book provides biographical and contextual information; but more fundamentally; it also considers how we might think about an enduringly difficult and experimental novelist and playwright who often challenges the very concepts of meaning and interpretation. It deals with his life; intellectual and cultural background; plays; prose; and critical response and relates Becketts work and vision to the culture and context from which he wrote. McDonald provides a sustained analysis of the major plays; including Waiting for Godot; Endgame; and Happy Days and his major prose works including Murphy; Watt and his famous trilogy of novels (Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable). This introduction concludes by mapping the huge terrain of criticism Becketts work has prompted; and it explains the turn in recent years to understanding Beckett within his historical context.