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...SAMUEL BECKETT 128 pages. Grove Press...
...SAMUEL BECKETT 61 pages. Grove Press...
Coming from almost any author but Samuel Beckett, 70, these two collections might seem slight to the point of frippery. Ends and Odds contains eight brief pieces for the stage, radio or television. Fizzles offers an even more self-derisive title, generous margins, plenty of white space and eight snippets of prose, the longest of which does not quite fill nine pages. Yet in Beckett's case, the oddity is not that $13.90 (plus tax) purchases so few words, but that those words were written...
There are a few bibliographical errors in Mister Tom Keffner's article "Beckett: Reclaiming the Unusable" [(November 3, 1976). Beckett's essay "Dante ... Bruno. Vico .. Joyce"] (please note spelling and punctuation) is not "long out print." It appears currently with the other essays originally collected under the title Our Examination Round his Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress in James Joyce/Finnegans Wake: A Symposium. New York: New Directions, 1972. "Equally difficult to find" "Whoroscope" and Echo's Bones may be found in Beckett, Samuel. Poems in English. New York: Grove Press, 1962. Michael Haggerty
...common reader, Beckett is really not linguistically obscure. His care in translation demonstrates his commitment to ordinary, idiomatic language, both English and French. His own work clearly departs from the ideals of Joyce, whose Finnegan's Wake he so strongly praises: "You complain that this stuff is not written in English. It is not written at all. It is not to be read--or rather it is not only to be read...His writing is not about something; it is that something itself." Both artists create this inseparable unity of form and content, but Beckett, unlike Joyce, does not orchestrate...