Best Selling Books by Samuel Beckett

Originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett, Endgame was given its first London performance at the Royal Court Theatre in 1957. HAMM: Clov! CLOV: Yes. HAMM: Nature has forgotten us. CLOV: There''s no more nature. HAMM: No more nature! You exaggerate. CLOV: In the vicinity. HAMM: But we breathe, we change! We lose our hair our teeth! Our bloom! Our ideals! CLOV: Then she hasn''t forgotten us.

Plays explore themes such as the manipulation of people by each other, the state''s enslavement of a man, and the hopes and guilts in a man''s past

Samuel Beckett''s celebrated early study of Marcel proust, whose theories of time were to play a large part in his own work, was written in 1931. It is a brilliant work of critical insight that also tells us much about its author''s own thinking and preoccupations. In its own right it is a masterpiece of literary and philosophical creative writing. This edition was published in 1999 - ten years after the writer''s death. The volume also contains the equally celebrated dialogues with the art critic Georges Duthuit - written to record their different points of view after the discussions took place. Beckett always let Duthuit win, but his very unusual and often opposite point of view on the nature and purpose of art is all the more forceful and memorable on that account.

"The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett is beyond doubt a major contribution to Beckett scholarship and to the study of drama as a genre."--Richard J. Finneran

Renowned Beckett scholar Ruby Cohn has selected some of Beckett''s criticisms, reviews, letters, and other unpublished materials that shed new light on his work.

Collected here in one volume, Samuel Beckett''s three novels, which are among the most beautiful and disquieting of his later prose works, come together with the powerful resonance of his famous Three Novels Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable. In Company, a voice comes to one on his back in the dark and speaks to him, describing significant moments in life, and yet we are told it is all a fable, memories or figments devised or imagined for the sake of company. Ill Seen Ill Said focuses attention on an old woman in a cabin who is part of the objects, landscape, rhythms, and movements of an incomprehensible universe. And in Worstward Ho, Beckett explores a tentative, uncertain existence in a world devoid of rational meaning and purpose. Here is language pared down to its most expressive, confirming Beckett''s position as one of the great writers of our time.

One of the most accessible examples of Samuel Beckett''s dark humor, Mercier and Camier is the hilarious chronicle of its two heroes'' epic journey. While their travels are fraught with complications and intrigue, Mercier and Camier at least "did not remove from home, they had that good fortune."

Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, novels, stories and poetry has earned him an uncontested place as one of the greatest writers of our time. Endgame, originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett himself, is considered by many critics to be his greatest single work. A pinnacle of Beckett’s characteristic raw minimalism, it is a pure and devastating distillation of the human essence in the face of approaching death.

''Watt'' mantem-se, na sua essência, extremamente irlandês, sendo um romance filosófico pleno do humor sinistro que caracterizara as suas primeiras ficções, como ''More pricks than kicks'' e ''Murphy''. As deambulações de ''Watt'', especialmente em casa do excêntrico Mr. Knott, e as descrições lógicas para suscitar sentido contam-se certamente entre as invenções mais cómicas da literatura moderna. ''Watt'' tornou-se um dos mais apreciados e citados romances de Beckett. As singularidades e omissões tipográficas foram mantidas tal como Beckett as deixou no texto.

Arena Stage, Zelda Fichandler, producing director, Thomas C. Fichandler, executive director presents Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy in "Two by Samuel Beckett," directed by Alan Schneider, production supervisor, Robert Walter, production coordinator Thomas Lloyd, stage manager Joseph Brocket, "Not I".

The first novel by the author of Waiting for Godot centers around the activities of Belacqua, a precursor of the playwright''s more mature Molloy in Molloy.

''Murphy'', Samuel Beckett''s first published novel, was written in English and published in London in 1938; Beckett himself subsequently translated the book into French, and it was published in France in 1947. The novel recounts the hilarious but tragic life of Murphy in London as he attempts to establish a home and to amass sufficient fortune for his intended bride to join him.

Eight short prose pieces, written between 1960 and 1975, continue Beckett''s unsparing and spare-styled exploration of the dark ways and circumscribed passages of twentieth-century life

Beckett''s anti-hero, in these ten short stories, is Belacqua, a Dublin student and philanderer