Samuel Beckett: A Biography
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Winner of the National Book Award in 1981, Samuel Beckett: A Biography stands as the definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century's most enigmatic and influential literary figures. Deirdre Bair chronicles the life of the Irish-born playwright, novelist, and poet — from his sheltered Protestant upbringing in the Dublin suburbs, through his tumultuous years in Paris alongside James Joyce, to his emergence as the towering voice behind Waiting for Godot and Endgame — painting an intimate and unflinching picture of a man who shaped modern theatre from the shadows of voluntary obscurity. Bair's remarkable achievement lies in her unprecedented access to Beckett himself, who — in a gesture of characteristically sardonic detachment — neither authorised nor obstructed her research, producing a biography of rare psychological depth and intellectual rigour. Her prose balances scholarly precision with narrative drive, illuminating the paradoxes at the heart of Beckett's genius: a man consumed by failure who redefined success, a writer who argued that there was nothing to express yet produced a body of work of shattering emotional power. For anyone captivated by the question of how art is born from silence, this biography is nothing less than essential.
Author: Deirdre Bair
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Winner of the National Book Award in 1981, Samuel Beckett: A Biography stands as the definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century's most enigmatic and influential literary figures. Deirdre Bair chronicles the life of the Irish-born playwright, novelist, and poet — from his sheltered Protestant upbringing in the Dublin suburbs, through his tumultuous years in Paris alongside James Joyce, to his emergence as the towering voice behind Waiting for Godot and Endgame — painting an intimate and unflinching picture of a man who shaped modern theatre from the shadows of voluntary obscurity. Bair's remarkable achievement lies in her unprecedented access to Beckett himself, who — in a gesture of characteristically sardonic detachment — neither authorised nor obstructed her research, producing a biography of rare psychological depth and intellectual rigour. Her prose balances scholarly precision with narrative drive, illuminating the paradoxes at the heart of Beckett's genius: a man consumed by failure who redefined success, a writer who argued that there was nothing to express yet produced a body of work of shattering emotional power. For anyone captivated by the question of how art is born from silence, this biography is nothing less than essential.