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Paul Stewart

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Nottingham, The United Kingdom

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Contemporary, Fiction, Poetry

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Samuel Beckett, Laurence Sterne, James Joyce, J.M. Coetzee

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Paul Stewart is a novelist, poet and academic living in Cyprus.

His latest novel, The Book of Paul, has just been published by Armida Press, and is a follow-up to Of People and Things (2019).
His first novel, Now Then, was published by Armida Press in 2014. He has two books on Samuel Beckett: Sex and Aesthetics in Samuel Beckett's Works, and Zone of Evaporation: Samuel Beckett's Disjunctions.
He also co-edited 'Pop Beckett' with David Pattie.
His volume of poetry, And Other Elsewheres, was published in 2011. ...more

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	Now Then 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Of People and Things 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zone of Evaporation really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pop Beckett: Intersections with Popular Culture by David Pattie (Editor), Paul Stewart (Goodreads Author) (Editor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book of Paul it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sex and Aesthetics in Samuel Beckett's Work really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beckett’s Late Stage: Trauma, Language, and Subjectivity by Rhys Tranter (Goodreads Author), Paul Stewart (Goodreads Author) (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beckett, Lacan and the Voice by Llewellyn Brown, Paul Stewart (Goodreads Author) (Series Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Samuel Beckett and Contemporary Art by Robert Reginio, David Houston Jones (Editor), Paul Stewart (Goodreads Author) (Series Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beckett's Afterlives: Adaptation, Remediation, Appropriation by Jonathan Bignell (Editor), Anna McMullan (Editor), Pim Verhulst (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Paul Stewart rated a book it was amazing Old Masters: A Comedy by Thomas Bernhard	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
humanely misanthropic. Just wonderful. One of Bernhard's best. Didn't read it as I would have liked - a short, sharp dose over a couple of days - but I still got that rush that I have come to expect from his later, most intense works. There is a sly ...more
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Paul Stewart rated a book it was amazing Disjecta: Miscellaneous Writings and a Dramatic Fragment by Samuel Beckett	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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