{"product_id":"2026200015522-secondhand-beckett-beckett","title":"Beckett\/Beckett","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn one of the most incisive works of literary criticism to emerge from the twentieth century, Vivian Mercier presents a brilliantly structured dual portrait of Samuel Beckett — the man and the artist — through a series of carefully constructed binary oppositions that illuminate every facet of the Nobel laureate's singular genius. Beckett\/Beckett argues that Beckett's life and work are best understood through contrasting pairs — Irish\/European, Catholic\/Rational, Abstract\/Concrete, Solitary\/Committed — weaving biography and critical analysis into a seamless, authoritative account of one of literature's most enigmatic figures.\n\nMercier, himself an Irish critic of considerable stature and a contemporary of Beckett, writes with rare intimacy and scholarly precision, drawing on personal knowledge and deep textual analysis to produce a study that is both rigorous and revelatory. The book stands as a landmark in Beckett scholarship, capturing the paradoxical tensions that animate works such as Waiting for Godot, Molloy, and Endgame with a clarity that few critics have matched before or since. For anyone seeking to understand why Beckett's bleak, stripped-down vision of humanity continues to haunt and compel readers worldwide, this is the essential starting point — and its final pages leave one questioning whether any artist can ever truly be separated from the contradictions that define them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203209699547,"sku":"2026200015522-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/4c0a523e-8b6e-46a8-b79a-c6d8a096ff58.png?v=1788145810","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015522-secondhand-beckett-beckett","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}