| Description |
xx, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Part 1 Beckett Remembering -- Chapter I The Young Samuel Beckett -- Interviews with Beckett about: -- Home -- Family -- Music and Tennis -- Schools: Prep School; Earlsfort House; Portora Royal School, Enniskillen -- University: Trinity College Dublin -- Sport and Theatre in Dublin. -- Chapter II Reluctant Teacher and Lecturer -- Interviews with Beckett about: -- Campbell College, Belfast -- Peggy Sinclair and Kassel -- The Ecole Normale SupÄrieure, Paris -- James and Nora, Lucia and Giorgio Joyce; Paul LÄon -- Lecturing at T. C. D: students' divided opinions of him as a Lecturer -- Beckett on his painter friend, Jack B. Yeats -- Francis Stuart on Beckett. -- Chapter III The Bad Years -- The Thirties. -- Interviews with Beckett about: -- His psychotherapy in London and ÔMurphy' -- John Kobler and Duncan Scott remembering Beckett on ÔMurphy' and London -- Interviews with Ursula Thompson and Arthur Hillis about Beckett in London -- J. M. Coetzee on Beckett's application for a Lectureship at The University of Cape -- Town. -- The War Years. -- Interviews with Beckett about his work with the Resistance cell ÔGloria SMH' -- Nathalie Sarraute about his flight from the Gestapo -- Escape to the South: Fernand Aude and Yvonne Lob on Beckett's hide-out in the -- Vaucluse -- Simone McKee on Beckett at the Irish Red Cross Hospital in St-LÖ -- Part II Remembering Beckett -- Chapter IV Success: the French Novels and En attendant Godot -- JÄrÖme Lindon on Beckett as a French writer and his first big success with ÔEn -- attendant Godot' -- Jean Martin on Beckett and on the world premiÅre of ÔGodot' -- Peter Woodthorpe on the British premiÅre of ÔWaiting for Godot' and on meeting -- Beckett -- Richard Seaver -- Ruby Cohn, ÔThe ÔGodot' circle' -- Avigdor Arikha, ÔBeckett and Art' -- Lawrence Harvey, ÔConversations with Beckett' 1962 -- Martin Esslin, ÔBeckett the man' -- Aidan Higgins, Eileen O'Casey and Shivaun O'Casey on friendship with Beckett. -- Chapter V Beckett as Director -- The Royal Court Theatre, London: Brenda Bruce; Jocelyn Herbert; Billie Whitelaw. -- The Schiller Theater, Berlin: The German premiÅre, Boleslaw Barlog and Rosemarie -- Koch -- Beckett as Mediator, Deryk Mendel; Klaus Herm; Boleslaw Barlog and Horst Bollmann -- Views of Beckett as Director, Horst Bollmann; Gottfried Bttner; Martin Held; Eva- -- Katharina Schultz; Klaus Herm; his production assistant, Walter Asmus -- The San Quentin Drama Workshop: Rick Cluchey; Lawrence Held; Bud Thorpe; Alan -- Mandell recall their experiences of being directed by Beckett. -- Chapter VI Memories of Beckett in London and Berlin -- London: Duncan Scott -- Berlin: Ruby Cohn; Gottfried Bttner; Walter Asmus; Boleslaw Barlog; Horst -- Bollmann; Klaus Herm -- Compassion: a Disagreement: Walter Asmus and Rosemarie Koch -- A Biographical Puzzle: James Knowlson. -- Chapter VII Beckett in the USA -- Some Productions and Tributes: the actors, Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn and Steve -- Martin; the writers, Edward Albee and Paul Auster -- Chapter VIII The Final Years -- Beckett in the 1970s and 1980s: James Knowlson; Stan Gontarski; Charles Krance; -- Michael Rudman; Jan JÜnson; Antoni Libera; Robert Scanlan; Siegfried Unseld; -- Raymond Federman. -- Appendix I -- Beckett on Racine: The Unpublished Lecture Notes of Grace West, 1931 |
| Summary |
"In the first part of this book, Beckett, a notably reclusive man, talks candidly with his official biographer, James Knowlson, about his family, his youth, his school years in Dublin, his early life in Paris as lecteur at the famed Ecole Normale Superieure, his friendship with James Joyce, his work in the French resistance movement during the Nazi occupation, his precipitous flight from Paris when his involvement was discovered by the Gestapo, his clandestine years in the Vaucluse region of southern France, his postwar volunteer work with the Irish Red Cross Hospital in Saint-Lo, and his return to Paris in the late 1940s to resume his literary life." |
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"In the second part, friends and colleagues share their memories of Beckett as a schoolboy, a teacher, a struggling young writer, and a sudden success in 1953 with the appearance of Waiting for Godot, which propelled him from virtual unknown to world-renowned. Actors with whom he worked, including Hume Cronyn, Jean Martin, Jessica Tandy, and Billie Whitelaw, relate their experiences; fellow playwrights and authors Edward Albee, Paul Auster, E. M. Cioran, J. M. Coetzee, Eugene Ionesco, Edna O'Brien, and Tom Stoppard speak of his work and its influence on theirs. One entire chapter is devoted to Beckett as director, for as time went on Beckett, first modestly, then authoritatively, oversaw the direction of many of his plays in France, Germany, and England."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
The first half is comprised of interviews with Samuel Beckett. The second half is reflections on him by various people |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature; A 2006 Financial Times Best Nonfiction Pick |
| Subject |
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 -- Interviews.
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Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 -- Friends and associates.
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Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 -- Stage history.
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Authors, Irish -- 20th century -- Interviews.
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Authors, French -- 20th century -- Interviews.
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Irish -- France -- Interviews.
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| Genre/Form |
Festschriften.
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Interviews.
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| Author |
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989.
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Knowlson, James.
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Knowlson, Elizabeth.
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| LC no. |
2005010308 |
| ISBN |
1559707720 |
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