Monday, January 19, 2009

Understanding Samuel Beckett


Understanding Samuel Beckett
(Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature)
by Alan Astro

# Hardcover: 240 pages
# Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Pr (September 1990)

Presents an overview of the work of Samuel Beckett. Discussing his famous as well as lesser known texts, the book shows how his characters incorporate silence in their speech to narrate their deaths. Finally it examines "Stirring Still", his last text, which evokes his own imminent death.

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