Synopsis
Collected here in one volume, Samuel Beckettā s three novels, which are among the most beautiful and disquieting of his later prose works, come together with the powerful resonance of his famous Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable.
In Company, a voice comes to “one on his back in the darkā and speaks to him, describing significant moments in life, and yet we are told it is all a fable, memories or figments devised or imagined for the sake of company. Ill Seen Ill Said focuses attention on an old woman in a cabin who is part of the objects, landscape, rhythms, and movements of an incomprehensible universe. And in Worstward Ho, Beckett explores a tentative, uncertain existence in a world devoid of rational meaning and purpose. Here is language pared down to its most expressive, confirming Beckettā s position as one of the great writers of our time.
In Company, a voice comes to “one on his back in the darkā and speaks to him, describing significant moments in life, and yet we are told it is all a fable, memories or figments devised or imagined for the sake of company. Ill Seen Ill Said focuses attention on an old woman in a cabin who is part of the objects, landscape, rhythms, and movements of an incomprehensible universe. And in Worstward Ho, Beckett explores a tentative, uncertain existence in a world devoid of rational meaning and purpose. Here is language pared down to its most expressive, confirming Beckettā s position as one of the great writers of our time.
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Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), one of the leading literary and dramatic figures of the twentieth century, was born in Foxrock, Ireland and attended Trinity College in Dublin. In 1969, Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature and commended for having "transformed the destitution of man into his exaltation."
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"Beckett has compressed his spare style to neutron star density. His words cluster together like crystal formations, cemented into patterns of rhythm and alliteration. . . . The most intense statement yet of its author’s vision, this work focuses to a pinpoint one of the great sensibilities in modern world literature." Washington Post
"This is the most wonderful prose I have ever read by him sleek, ironic, gloom-cadenced, self-dissolving and perhaps the most wonderful prose I have ever read." Los Angeles Times
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Nohow On: Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, and Worstward Ho
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John Calder Pub Ltd, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1992
ISBN 10: 0714541125
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