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Control # 1 hbl99081592
Control # Id 3 GCG
Date 5 20240112084032.0
Fixed Data 8 220805s2022 enk b 001 0 eng d
LC Card 10    $a 2022930709
ISBN 20    $a0192858734
ISBN 20    $a9780192858733
Obsolete 39    $a336124$cTLC
Cat. Source 40    $aGCG$beng$erda$cGCG
LC Call 50  4 $aPR6003.E282$bZ5762 2022
ME:Pers Name 100 $aBodenheimer, Rosemarie,$d1946-
Title 245 10 $aSamuel Beckett /$cRosemarie Bodenheimer.
Edition 250    $aFirst edition.
Tag 264 264  1 $aOxford, United Kingdom :$bOxford University Press,$c2022.
Phys Descrpt 300    $avi, 144 pages ;$c23 cm.
Tag 336 336    $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
Tag 337 337    $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
Tag 338 338    $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
Series:Diff 490 $aMy reading
Note:Bibliog 504    $aIncludes bibliographical references (page 141) and index.
Note:Content 505 $aWriting Memory -- Belacqua and Mr. Beckett -- First-Person Singular -- In the Mud -- Lost Persons, Cherished Things.
Abstract 520    $aAfter a life of writing about Victorian novelists, Rosemarie Bodenheimer found herself entranced by the work of Samuel Beckett. In this book she shares her journey of discovery with readers who may or may not be familiar with Beckett's novels and stories. She follows his trajectory from the first unpublished novel, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, through the great postwar trilogy of Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable, and on to the ever more experimental inventions in the shorter, later fictions and monologues. Through readings of his work alongside extracts from his published correspondence, Beckett emerges as a sympathetic human figure, a poet of productive doubt, and a brilliant stylist of mood changes and second thoughts. Bodenheimer considers Beckett's treatments of memory, nostalgia, and grief, and the forms he finds to convey those essential human experiences while avoiding melodrama or sentimentality. His dramatized relationship with his own writing is a crucial part of that emotional landscape. His playful jousts with the conventions of novel-writing show how, from the start, Beckett challenged the notion of character and other inherited novel conventions. The book also emphasizes his dismantling of the autobiographical "I," his moving narratives of attachment and loss, and the inimitable mixture of comedy and pathos he creates by inventing outlandish situations to which his characters respond with very recognizable human anxieties and adaptations
Subj:Pers 600 10 $aBeckett, Samuel,$d1906-1989$xCriticism and interpretation.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aDramatists, Irish$y20th century$xCriticism and interpretation.
Subj:Pers 600 10 $aBeckett, Samuel,$d1906-1989.
SE:Ufm Title 830  0 $aMy reading (Series)