For to End Yet Again

by Beckett

Erstaunlicherweise sind Samuel Becketts Texte zur Bildenden Kunst relativ unbekannt, obwohl er enormen Einfluss auf die Kunst der Moderne ausübte. Das Buch wendet sich nicht nur an Beckettfans, sondern auch an Künstler, Kunstinteressierte und Geisteswissenschaftler.

Genres: Short Stories, Poetry

54 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1976

Reviews

[Mathieu · Rating 3 out of 5]

More prose poetry than short stories, this definitely has its moments of grace and 'Un Soir' stands out to me.
It gets kind of repetitive though and it doesn't feel like I'll retain much from this collection except for a certain sense of despair and a macabre experience. It's also highly possible I don't have all the keys to interpret some of these correctly.
These are very short though so you can kind of breeze through some of them out of curiosity, there's definitely something unique about it.

[Deirdre · Rating 5 out of 5]

"“...and a dream away in space with neither here nor there where all the footsteps ever fell can never fare nearer to anywhere nor from anywhere further away. Nor for in the end again by degrees or as though switched on dark falls there again that certain dark that alone certain ashes can. Through it who knows yet another end beneath a cloudless sky of a last end if ever there had to be another absolutely had to be.”

[محمّد · Rating 4 out of 5]

او کاش می‌کند تمام شود غروب و آزاد باز دربه‌در در مدیدِ شفق شود. اضافه بر تشویش، آشنا خش‌خشِ مدیدِ سیاهِ دامنش به چمن. با چشمِ نیم‌بسته می‌رود انگار کشیده‌اش باشی در زِلِّ زِلِّ نور. می‌تواند بگوید به خود یک سرشبِ اسفندفروردین و این‌همه اعجاب!
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به نظر خوب نِشست. وَ دیگر همین.

_فارسیِ کیوان طهماسبیان

[Stuart Estell · Rating 4 out of 5]

The short piece "For To End Yet Again", with its extraordinary imagery of dust and dwarfs, is the stand-out piece in this volume. Some great, bleak, jokes in here.

[David Markwell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant. So far the best of these shorts.

[Jonathan Norton · Rating 2 out of 5]

Being, becoming, nothing.

[Mathieu]

Why the fuck didn't I read this in French

I'm probably too stupid to understand it anyway but wew