Footfalls

by Samuel Beckett

Staplebound paperback; first edition. Book has moderate shelfwear to all edges of cover but no tears or stains. Pages are clean throughout. AD

Genres: Plays, Drama, Theatre, Irish Literature, Fiction

7 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1976

About the author

Novels of Samuel Barclay Beckett, Irish writer, include Murphy in 1938 and Malone Dies in 1951; a wider audience know his absurdist plays, such as Waiting for Godot in 1952 and Krapp's Last Tape in 1959, and he won the Nobel Prize of 1969 for literature.

Samuel Barclay Beckett, an avant-garde theater director and poet, lived in France for most of his adult life. He used English and French. His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black gallows humor.

People regard most influence of Samuel Barclay Beckett of the 20th century. James Augustine Aloysius Joyce strongly influenced him, whom people consider as one modernist. People sometimes consider him as an inspiration to many later first postmodernists. He is one of the key in what Martin Esslin called the "theater of the absurd". His later career worked with increasing minimalism.

People awarded Samuel Barclay Beckett "for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation".

In 1984, people elected Samuel Barclay Bennett as Saoi of Aosdána.

Reviews

[Michael P. · Rating 5 out of 5]

A mother and a daughter and pacing. One through nine. Brilliant Beckett that should not be overly analyzed here--partly because I don't pretend to have mastered it. This one act must wash over you like a wave, and then you see what it leaves behind.

[Nahed.E · Rating 3 out of 5]

"السيدة روني: (فجأة) السنوات كيف تتراكم؟
السيد تايلر: (بلطف) إنهم يفعلون ذلك ، إنهم يفعلون ذلك.
السّيدة روني: (بمرارة) ومدى ضآلة معرفتنا بهم.
السيد تايلر: (بلطف) نعم ، نعم بالفعل.
السّيدة روني: (بمرارة) حتى اللحظة الأخيرة.
السيد تايلر: (برفق) وبعد ذلك ربما فات الأوان.
السّيدة روني: (بمرارة) نعم. (وقفة).
السيد تايلر: (بلطف) ومع ذلك نواصل العيش ، على الرغم من كل هذا.
السّيدة روني: (بإحساسٍ بالمرارة) نعم ، على الرغم من كل هذا. (وقفة).
السيد تايلر: (برفق) حتى النهاية.
السّيدة روني: (بمرارة) حتى النهاية المرة. (وقفة).
السيد تايلر: (بلطف) ربما لم يكن ذلك مراً بعد كل شيء.
السّيدة روني: (بمرارة) أوه ، إنه كذلك. (وقفة).
السيد تايلر: (بلطف) ومع ذلك هناك لحظات ، لحظات من الفرح.
السّيدة روني: (بإحساسٍ بالمرارة) أوه ، فرح ، فرح. (وقفة).
السيد تايلر: (بلطف) ولحظات حزن.
السّيدة. روني: (بصوتٍ مرير) أوه ، حزن ، حزن. (وقفة).
السيد تايلر: (بلطف) ولحظات نعمة.
السّيدة روني: (بصوت واهٍ) نعمة ، نعمة. (وقفة).
السيد تايلر: (بلطف) ولحظات الخزي.
السّيدة روني: (بصوتٍ واهٍ) وصمة عار. (وقفة).
السيد. تايلر: (برفق) ثم الصمت الطويل.
السّيدة روني: (بمرارة) الصمت الطويل ".

"All That Fall"- مسرحية صامويل بيكيت

[Amirsaman · Rating 2 out of 5]

خوانش اول با ترجمه‌ی مهدی نوید.
خوانش دوم با ترجمه‌ی علی‌اکبر علیزاد. حین دیدن فیلم والتر آسموس از اثر.

[Diba · Rating 3 out of 5]

Too many repetitive elements that you can find almost in all Beckett's works: silence, loss and darkness with so pause to prevents the course of action. Everything goes to decay like lights and sounds.

[Marcus · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another trapped Beckett character is haunted by past ghosts and trauma.

[nensi]

fun!

[Daniel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Reading and fully understanding this play was not an easy thing to do. Not only because it was a required reading for my class, but I really wanted to finish this play to fully understand what it's about.

The rhythm, the characters, the revolving of memories, it all made it impactful. This is one of those plays that you can read over, and over again and take something new away from it.

After 8 weeks of reading and understanding Beckett, I'm finally starting to grow an appreciation for his work.

[Myrto · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wow, one of his best plays. It's only a few pages buuut its meanings are so deep. Well, well, it's interesting to see how noice (the sound our feet produce when we walk) becomes a medium of existing, of being. Also, I found magnificent how at the end of the play hope and the posibility to escape from destitution is expressed--simply--by "not being there", by absence.

[Jessica · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love how specific the stage directions are.

[Jacob Finck · Rating 1 out of 5]

How is a play so short so stupid?

[Harrison Jack · Rating 3 out of 5]

I suppose in the end all we ever truly experience is silence and rot

[Kayley · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fairly short read that compliments Beckett's absurdness. I believe Footfalls is a metaphor for the evolution of life and the importance of family and the memories that are soon to be forgotten.

[Amy Lee · Rating 3 out of 5]

Worth seeing alongside: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGvwqE...