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...Beckett...
Kerouac said he thinks Emily Dickinson, James Joyce and T.S. Eliot were the greatest poets of the twentieth century, and Marcel Proust, Jean Genet and William Faulkner the greatest prose writers. But "Hemingway was nowhere. He wrote childish sentences, like Beckett does...
...LOVER by Harold Pinter, and PLAY by Samuel Beckett. Pinter's couple indulge in the aphrodisiac of a make-believe affair, while Beckett's trio reveal with solemn hu mor the banality of adultery...
...LOVER, by Harold Pinter, and PLAY, by Samuel Beckett. Pinter's couple let themselves go in uninhibited make-believe adultery, while Beckett's trio monologize bitingly and briefly about their adulterous affair...
...bland assertion of Beckett's title -How It Is-is likely to engender the irritated reply, "No, it ain't." Yet the real fault of this book and of Beckett's recent works is not the question of whether God exists or whether life has meaning. It is that despite Beckett's ingenuity, his touches of great eloquence, his flashes of brilliant wit, he simply has nothing new to say, and what he says over and over again does not much need saying. As with most of Beckett's metaphors for the human condition...