Shape of Paradox: An Essay on Waiting for Godot

by Bert O. States

Near fine in grey cloth boards with silver lettering on spine (name on copyright page, offsetting to endpapers), no dust jacket. Hardcover first edition - Berkeley, University of California Press,, (1978). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in grey cloth boards with silver lettering on spine (name on copyright page, offsetting to endpapers), no dust jacket. . First printing. A title in the Quantum books series - "a short study distinctive for the author's ability to offer a richness of detail and insight in about one hundred pages of print, short enough to be read in an evening and significant enough to be a book". Index, 120 pp.

120 pages, Hardcover

First published August 9, 1978

Reviews

[briella]

“I am interested in the shape of ideas even if I do not believe in them. There is a wonderful sentence in Augustine. I wish I could remember the Latin. It is even finer in Latin than in English. ‘Do not despair; one of the thieves was saved. Do not presume; one of the thieves was damned.’ That sentence has a wonderful shape. It’s the shape that matters.”
— Samuel Beckett.