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Six Residua
From an abandoned work
Enough
Imagination dead imagine
Ping
Lessness
The lost ones
(this collection itself is collected in The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989)
Enough
Imagination dead imagine
Ping
Lessness
The lost ones
(this collection itself is collected in The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989)
- GenresIreland
80 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1978
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About the author
Samuel Beckett
914 books6,544 followersNovels 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.
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.
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March 28, 2018
Of all the writers I've encountered, perhaps Beckett has the most adverse effect on my consciousness. I have been depressed before and will be again, and Beckett echoes the sort of hazy existential horror of that state. He's not fun to read, but his work is unmistakably powerful. Would I appreciate the strangling dread of these prose pieces more were I in a fouler mood, or would they plunge me further into isolated misery? That kind of question makes me reflect on the danger of the endeavor. His prose is intensely quieting. A reminder of half-remembered feverish nightmares. I can say nothing about it.
February 21, 2021
This was actually the greatest I've ever read of Beckett.
October 23, 2011
The architecture of the human mind verging on OCD <3
These residua are in short Beckett's obsessions, variations, permutations, equations, presented in a somewhat purified form. The syntax of the English/French language is mercilessly turned upside-down so as to give form to the syntax of the mind, to its dissonance and its occasional violence. Insufferable at times in its all complexity, but very intricate, especially if you are already familiar with some of Beckett's work. I guess one might even say that this is a pleasurable read for all keen fans of Beckett's.
Also, don't be fooled by the number of pages. This collection requires time and concentration.
These residua are in short Beckett's obsessions, variations, permutations, equations, presented in a somewhat purified form. The syntax of the English/French language is mercilessly turned upside-down so as to give form to the syntax of the mind, to its dissonance and its occasional violence. Insufferable at times in its all complexity, but very intricate, especially if you are already familiar with some of Beckett's work. I guess one might even say that this is a pleasurable read for all keen fans of Beckett's.
Also, don't be fooled by the number of pages. This collection requires time and concentration.
September 21, 2009
ေျခာက္ပုဒ္ပါတာ ႏွစ္ပုဒ္ပဲၿပီးေသးတယ္။ The abandoned Work နဲ႔ Enough ။ ပထမတစ္ပုဒ္ကို လံုးလံုး နားမလည္။ Enough ကေတာ့ ကိုယ့္ရဲ႕ အတၱကို ကိုယ္ျပန္ေဖာ္က်ဴးထားတာ ထင္တာပဲ (မေသခ်ာ)။ သိစိတ္အလ်ဥ္နဲ႔ ေရးထားတာလားမသိဘူး။ ၀ထၳဳတိုေတြလည္းမဟုတ္၊ အက္ေဆးလည္းမဟုတ္၊ ဘာလို႔သတ္မွတ္ရမလဲကို မသိ။ Review ေတြ ရွာဖတ္မွ အဆင္ေျပမယ္။ ၂၀ ရာစုရဲ႕ အေအာင္ျမင္ဆံုး စာေရးဆရာလို႔ ဘတ္ကက္ကိုညႊန္းတယ္။ ေလ့လာရဦးမယ္။
June 27, 2008
thanks to a book buying orgy in Shakespeare and Co. inspired by a visit to the Patti Smith exhibition at Fondation Cartier, Paris I am now revelling in Les Depeuples. Choreography? ART ART ART!!!
February 8, 2016
The Lost Ones (the final Residua in this collection) is incredible. Anyone who is a fan of Mr. Beckett and has not come across this text must.
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