Beckett (NP)

[Dave Monroe]

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.

First off, The Modern Word isn't JUST about Pynchon ...

http://www.themodernword.com/beckett/beckett_criticism.html

And see as well ...

http://www.samuel-beckett.net/

Plus some personal favorites ...

Richard Begam, Samuel Beckett and the End of Modernity
Herbert Blau, Sails of the Herring Fleet
Ihab Hassan, The Dismemberment of Orpheus
Hugh Kenner, The Stoic Comedians
John Pilling, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Beckett

... but despite SB being 2nd only to TP for me, I haven't been nearly
as obsessive about the secondary lit'rachure/critical
apparatus/whatever, so I'll be happy to get some recommednations as
well ...