Samuel Beckett by Deirdre Bair
A Biography
A rigorous, intimate biography of the Irish-born playwright and novelist that traces his life from rural childhood and Cambridge education through wartime experiences and a long, solitary literary career; drawing on extensive interviews, letters and archival material, it reconstructs his personal relationships, artistic development, habits and contradictions, offering both revealing anecdotes and critical evaluations of his work while probing the tensions between the public icon and the private man.
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- Published
- 1978
- Nationality
- American
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- Original Language
- English
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