{"product_id":"beckett-before-godot-hardback-9780521464963","title":"Beckett before Godot (Hardback) 9780521464963","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBeckett before Godot\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA leading Beckett scholar and editor of the Cambridge Companion to Beckett, offers a coherent critical account of Beckett's earliest years.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn Pilling (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521464963, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 28 February 1998\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e292 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.9 x 2.6 cm, 0.56 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Beckett Before Godot offers a much needed study of Beckett's 'formative years' from 1929 to 1946 … Beckett Before Godot demonstrates meticulous scholarship, referring to the MacGreevy correspondence and to Knowlson's biography to provide contexts for the creation of specific works.' Theatre Research International\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn Beckett before Godot, John Pilling (editor of the Cambridge Companion to Beckett) re-evaluates the formative years of Beckett between the publication of his first work in 1929 and the composition late in 1946 of The Calmative, his last work before the 'trilogy'. Using a wealth of unpublished manuscripts and correspondence from around the world, Pilling offers a detailed account of Beckett's early psychological and aesthetic development, and shows how his artistic growth was paradoxically linked to the likelihood of failure, to which he was always temperamentally attracted. Pilling's treatment of the first two decades of Beckett's career as a writer offers for the first time a coherent critical narrative of his development during this long period of apprenticeship. Beckett before Godot links biographical fact with a series of powerful close readings to modify and enhance our understanding of one of this century's most influential authors.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. 1929–1932: 2. Dante ... Bruno ... Vico ... Joyce and Assumption: 'the prospect of self-extension'\u003cbr\u003e 3. From a view to a kill: Proust and Le Concentrisme\u003cbr\u003e 4. Dream of Fair to Middling Women: 'a solution of continuity'\u003cbr\u003e Part II. 1932–1936: 5. More poems than precipitates: towards Echo's Bones and beyond\u003cbr\u003e 6. In the interval: More Pricks Than Kicks\u003cbr\u003e 7. Beckett as bookman: the reviews\u003cbr\u003e 8. Figure and ground: Murphy\u003cbr\u003e Part III. 1937–1946: 9. Dissonance: 1937–1940\u003cbr\u003e 10. Watt and Watt not\u003cbr\u003e 11. Texts for something: 'a universe becomes provisional'\u003cbr\u003e 12. Mercier et Camier and the nouvelles: 'the vicissitudes of the road'\u003cbr\u003e 13. Conclusion.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: plays \u0026amp; playwrights [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: plays \u0026amp; playwrights\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20plays%20\u0026amp;%20playwrights%20%5BDSG%5D%22\"\u003eDSG\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46006062514456,"sku":"9780521464963","price":91.88,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521464963i_e01d5a47-2eeb-49df-a262-e0cbd5dda488.jpg?v=1691382546","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/beckett-before-godot-hardback-9780521464963","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}