April 13, 2006

In honor of Samuel Beckett ...

whose birthday it is today ...

I present to you the following post from Irish blogger Lucy:

Beckett! What hast thou done to my sister?!?


Peteb has more stuff on Beckett over at Slugger. (Great quote from Brendan Behan about Beckett in the comments.)

Posted by sheila
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Have you seen/heard this? Bono's tribute to Beckett:
http://www.u2.com/news/index.php?mode=full&news_id=1923

Text of his reading is here:
http://www.u2.com/news/index.php?mode=full&news_id=1924

Posted by: TeacherDave at April 13, 2006 2:56 PM

I'd forgotten completely about that post, Sheila - "makes absolutely NO sense" - haha

And if I'd spotted the Behan quote earlier I would have used it in my original post.

But the RTE archive will probably be worth re-visiting. They'll link to each of the radio plays after broadcasting.

Tonight, however, if I'm still conscious, the yurt will be viewing Krapp's Last Tape from the Beckett on Film series.. with John Hurt.

Posted by: peteb at April 13, 2006 3:22 PM

Although Beckett is best known for his plays, I love his trilogy of novels. On my Irish lit course, when we were forced to read Yeats's A Vision, we used a quote from The Unnamable to describe the experience: "I must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on."

Posted by: ak at April 14, 2006 12:05 PM