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title	:	Understanding Samuel Beckett Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature
author	:	Astro, Alan.
publisher	:	University of South Carolina Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0872496864
print isbn13	:	9780872496866
ebook isbn13	:	9780585337265
language	:	English
subject	Beckett, Samuel,--1906-1989--Criticism and interpretation.
publication date	:	1990
lcc	:	PR6003.E282Z5637 1990eb
ddc	:	848/.91409
subject	:	Beckett, Samuel,--1906-1989--Criticism and interpretation.

Page i Understanding Samuel Beckett

Page ii UNDERSTANDING MODERN EUROPEAN and LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE JAMES HARDIN, SERIES EDITOR ADVISORY BOARD George C. Schoolfield Yale University Theodore Ziolkowski Princeton University Michael Winkler Rice University Charles Porter Yale University Roberto Gonzlez-Echevarra Yale University Sara Castro-Klarn The Johns Hopkins University <><><><><><><><><><><><> Understanding Gnter Grass by Alan Frank Keele Understanding Graciliano Ramos by Celso Lemos de Oliveira Understanding Gabriel Garca Mrquez by Kathleen McNerney Understanding Claude Simon by Ralph Sarkonak Understanding Mario Vargas Llosa by Sara Castro-Klarn Understanding Samuel Beckett by Alan Astro Understanding Jean-Paul Sartre by Philip R. Wood Understanding Albert Camus by David R. Ellison

Page iii Understanding Samuel Beckett by Alan Astro

Page iv Diagram in chapter 5 from Film by Samuel Beckett. Copyright 1967 by Samuel Beckett. Used by permission of Grove Weidenfeld. Copyright University of South Carolina 1990 Second Printing, 1992 Published in Columbia, South Carolina, by the University of South Carolina Press Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Astro, Alan. Understanding Samuel Beckett / by Alan Astro. p. cm. (Understanding modern European and Latin American literature) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-87249-686-4 1. Beckett, Samuel, 19061989 Criticism and interpretation. I. Title. II. Series. PR6003.E282Z5637 1990 848'.91409dc20 89-70759 CIP

Page v Understanding Endgame can only be understanding why it cannot be understood.... Theodor Adorno, "Towards an Understanding of Endgame" And I said, with rapture, Here is something I can study all my life, and never understand. Samuel Beckett, Molloy

Page vii Contents Editor's Preface ix Preface xi Abbreviations xiii Chronology xv Chapter 1 Overview 1 Chapter 2 Early Writings (192945) 26 Chapter 3 Major Novels (194761) 51 Chapter 4 Major Theatrical Works (194861) 114 Chapter 5 Later Works (196189) 169 Bibliography 209 Index 217

Page ix Editor's Preface Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature has been planned as a series of guides for undergraduate and graduate students and nonacademic readers. Like its companion series, Understanding Contemporary American Literature, the aim of the books is to provide an introduction to the life and writings of prominent modern authors and to explicate their most important works. Modern literature makes special demands, and this is particularly true of foreign literature, in which the reader must contend not only with unfamiliar, often arcane artistic conventions and philosophical concepts, but also with the handicap of reading the literature in translation. It is a truism that the nuances of one language can be rendered in another only imperfectly (and this problem is especially acute in fiction), but the fact that the works of European and Latin American writers are situated in a historical and cultural setting quite different from our own can be as great a hindrance to the understanding of these works as the linguistic barrier. For this reason, the UMELL series emphasizes the sociological and historical background of the writers treated. The peculiar philosophical and cultural traditions of a given culture may be particularly important for an understanding of certain authors, and these will be taken up in the introductory chapter and also in the discussion of those works to which this information is relevant. Beyond this, the

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