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NONFICTION: A Considerable Town, M.F.K. Fisher ∙ A Place for Noah, Josh Greenfeld ∙ Russian Thinkers, Isaiah Berlin ∙ Samuel Beckett, Deirdre Bair ∙ Scribble, Scribble, Nora Ephron ∙ The Gulag Archipelago III, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
NONFICTION: A Place for Noah, Josh Greenfeld A Savage War of Peace, Alistair Home Other People's Letters, Mina Curtiss Samuel Beckett, Deirdre Bair Scribble, Scribble, Nora Ephron The Gulag ArchipelagoIII, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Alistair Horne Samuel Beckett, Deirdre Bair Scribble, Scribble...
With few exceptions, what is most interesting and important about Beckett has transpired in his mind. This is the hardest and riskiest area for a biographer to penetrate, but Bair manages to avoid pop-psych theorizing and to let what facts there are speak for themselves. After a long period of psychoanalysis and a chance attendance at a lecture by Carl Jung, Beckett decided that he had not fully been born. This, he felt, explained his fondness for curling up in dark rooms, his urge to hide from an insistently garish reality. "I'm looking for my mother...
...that "nothing is more grotesque than the tragic," and all of his works prove it. Beckett's clowns and cripples suffer and rant in a world as comic as it is hopeless, comic because it is hopeless. Easy cynics, in literature and life, are a dime a dozen. Bair's biography shows how rigorously and painfully Beckett earned his vision, and with what heroism he prevailed over...