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Beckett Before Beckett: Samuel Beckett's Lectures on French Literature - Couverture souple

Juez, Brigitte Le

 
9780285638624: Beckett Before Beckett: Samuel Beckett's Lectures on French Literature
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ISBN 10 : 0285638629 ISBN 13 : 9780285638624
Editeur : Souvenir Press Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

Samuel Beckett lectured on modern French literature at his old university, Trinity College, in 1930 1931 but those lectures are not widely known and have rarely been studied. This is one of the least known periods of Beckett's life. He had just returned from Paris where he had met James Joyce and had started his literary career but had not yet written his first novel.

Brigitte Le Juez is the first writer to fully study these lectures, the most complete record of Beckett the young intellectual, and a valuable guide to the inspirations behind his work and concept of literature. They answer many of the questions about Beckett's work. How did he define the modern novel of his day? What should literature strive to achieve, or more properly, what should it not be? They reveal the writers he studied and was influenced by and the notebooks demonstrate that Racine is the writer most frequently praised by Beckett while Balzac is the target of his fiercest criticism. Other writers studied by Beckett include Proust, Flaubert and Stendhal, Dostoyevsky and Andre Gide.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Samuel Beckett lectured on modern French literature at his old university, Trinity College, in 1930 1931 but those lectures are not widely known and have rarely been studied. This is one of the least known periods of Beckett s life. He had just returned from Paris where he had met James Joyce and had started his literary career but had not yet written his first novel. Brigitte Le Juez is the first writer to fully study these lectures, the most complete record of Beckett the young intellectual, and a valuable guide to the inspirations behind his work and concept of literature. They answer many of the questions about Beckett s work. How did he define the modern novel of his day? What should literature strive to achieve, or more properly, what should it not be? They reveal the writers he studied and was influenced by and the notebooks demonstrate that Racine is the writer most frequently praised by Beckett while Balzac is the target of his fiercest criticism. Other writers studied by Beckett include Proust, Flaubert and Stendhal, Dostoyevsky and Andre Gide.

Revue de presse

The young Samuel Beckett s lectures on literature offer a perspective on 19th century writing that remains fresh and shows the roots of his own art... At last we can see the genesis of what would turn out to be one of the most extraordinary literary expressions of the 20th century. --Guardian

Fresh insight into Samuel Beckett s formative years... It beings to the fore obsessions that would later become leitmotifs in Beckett s own work... (the) reconstruction of Beckett s lectures compellingly shows how an innovative mind fed on, and subverted, the classics. --Times Literary Supplement

We owe a debt of gratitude to Brigitte Le Juez for revealing this previously unknown dimension to one of the giants of 20th-century literature. --Irish Times

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Éditeur
Souvenir Press Ltd
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0285638629
ISBN 13 
9780285638624
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
96
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