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The Books: The Fun of It: Stories from The Talk of the Town, edited by Lillian Ross; ‘Beckett’, by Jane Kramer
Next up on the essays shelf: The Fun of It: Stories from The Talk of the Town (Modern Library Paperbacks) is a collection of “The Talk of the Town” pieces in The New Yorker, grouped by decade, which is a … Continue reading
Posted in Actors, Books, Movies, writers
Tagged Buster Keaton, essays, Ireland, Samuel Beckett, The Fun of It
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“all fecund with its nuttiness”
An hysterical short film by Bórd Scannán na hEireann of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett playing pitch ‘n putt and … waiting … for … someone. Joyce is in a perpetual rage. Beckett is impenetrable. I laughed the whole way … Continue reading Continue reading
“O tell me all about Anna Livia!
I want to hear all about Anna Livia. Well, you know Anna Livia? Yes, of course, we all know Anna Livia. Tell me all. Tell me now. You’ll die when you hear.” — Finnegans Wake, James Joyce A wonderful post … Continue reading
Posted in Books, James Joyce
Tagged Finnegans Wake, Ireland, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Samuel Beckett, The Dead, Ulysses
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Happy Birthday, Samuel Beckett
Harold Pinter said about Beckett: “The farther he goes the more good it does me. I don’t want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement. He is the most courageous, remorseless writer going and … Continue reading
Posted in On This Day, writers
Tagged Brendan Behan, Harold Pinter, Ireland, Samuel Beckett
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“It is not to be read”
Samuel Beckett said, on the language of Finnegans Wake: You cannot complain that this stuff is not written in English. It is not written at all. It is not to be read. It is to be looked at and listened … Continue reading
Beckett on Finnegans Wake
Samuel Beckett said, about the language of Finnegans Wake: You cannot complain that this stuff is not written in English. It is not written at all. It is not to be read. It is to be looked at and listened … Continue reading
Posted in James Joyce
Tagged Finnegans Wake, Samuel Beckett
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