Beckett (NP)

[Johnny Marr]

Damned to Fame is one of the best literary biographies I've ever read, it
covers everything you could wish to know about his life and collaborations,
with plenty of insights as to his influences and reference points (the
setting for Godot is inspired by Casper David Friedrich, while Rockaby has
its beginnings in Rembrandt's Margaretha Trip)

I also read some of the Cambridge Companion to Beckett - there's a
particularly illuminating piece on Come and Go which suggests that the
lighting instructions mean that they're in a Dantean concentric circle of
Hell.

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 1:52 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://www.samuel-beckett.net/
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>
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:23 PM, JD <wescac at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I seem to be sending a lot of NP queries of late, my apologies.
> >
> > Can anyone recommend any good material regarding the discussion of his
> work
> > - preferably books?  I'm at a complete loss at where to begin beyond the
> > work itself, and I don't know a lot of literate circles whose mass
> opinion I
> > am inclined to be interested by.
> >
> > Thank you for any input.
> >
> > Best,
> > Jon
> >
>
>
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