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  • Beckett's Friendship

    by André Bernold, John Minihan ...
    Translated by Max McGuinness ...
    'Despite his deep sense of privacy, Beckett's persona has been so widely written about that it has become unavoidably mixed up in our imagination with what Bernold calls his "creatures". Whether or not Barthes and Foucault were right to dismiss the figure of the author, when confronted with Vladimir wincing or Krapp hunched over his tape recorder or Molloy resting on his bicycle, one's mind always ... Read more

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  • Beckett's Friendship

    by André Bernold ...
    Translated by Max McGuinness ...
    'Despite his deep sense of privacy, Beckett's persona has been so widely written about that it has become unavoidably mixed up in our imagination with what Bernold calls his "creatures". Whether or not Barthes and Foucault were right to dismiss the figure of the author, when confronted with Vladimir wincing or Krapp hunched over his tape recorder or Molloy resting on his bicycle, one's mind always ... Read more

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  • This Little Art

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  • The Baudelaire Fractal

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  • The Complete Short Prose of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1989

    by Samuel Beckett ...
    Series series Beckett, Samuel
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    by Rainer Maria Rilke ...
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  • Campo Santo

    by W. G. Sebald ...
    Translated by Anthea Bell ...
    Campo Santo is a collection of essays by W. G. SebaldWhen W.G. Sebald died tragically in 2001 a unique voice was silenced. Campo Santo is a collection of the pieces he left behind - none of them previously published in book form - which provide a powerful insight into the themes that came to dominate his life.Four pieces pay tribute to Corsica, weaving elegiacally between past and present. Sebald ... Read more

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