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From the archives: Revolting
About a year ago I published the below notes on theatre and revolution; I take this opportunity as well to recommend the new edition of Georg Büchner’s work from W.W. Norton, published in April 2012...
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On 29 June I presented a YouTube version of Samuel Beckett’s 1982 television play Nacht und Träume, and in apologizing for its poor quality I recommended that “some enterprising distributor [should]...
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Upcoming: Beckett in New York
Sounding Beckett, a program that combines three late Beckett plays with new works by contemporary composers, will open at the Classic Stage Company on 14 September 2012 and run through 23 September....
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Christ and the Children
Emil Nolde: Christ and the Children. 1910. Oil on canvas, 34 1/8 x 41 7/8″ (86.8 x 106.4 cm). In the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Click on the image to enlarge. In facing the...
View ArticleIntroductory readings
I regularly write here about Samuel Beckett and Arthur Schopenhauer, but not only to air my own perspective. It is my hope that my readers themselves will also be drawn to seek out their writings. But...
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The Beckett Circle
Enthusiasts of the work of Samuel Beckett will note the recent debut of the new Beckett Circle Web site. Described as the “official Web site of the Samuel Beckett Society,” the online journal features...
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Samuel Beckett, bookworm
Time, space, and money being finite quantities in this world, the books that a person chooses to surround oneself with become a fascinating glimpse into the life of that mind. Far more than the...
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Other places: Beckett’s TV work, a “new” Churchill play, Brecht’s Galileo in...
Jack McGowran in a BBC production of Samuel Beckett’s Eh Joe. From Rhys Tranter of A Piece of Monologue comes a pointer to this essay by Jonathan Bignell about Samuel Beckett‘s television plays. As...
View ArticleFrom the archives: New Expressionism
As I continue to write Erlkönig I’ll be republishing several entries to keep the fire here going. Originally posted on 18 October 2010. In Schopenhauer’s conception of knowledge and the world, mankind...
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Celan and Beckett
Paul Celan and Samuel Beckett. According to John Felstiner, Theodor Adorno considered Paul Celan “the only authentic postwar writer to stand with Samuel Beckett.” [1] (Adorno, Beckett, Celan: there’s...
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