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Waiting for Godot and Endgame
Gathers together interpretations of Beckett's best-known plays, illustrating a range of theoretical approaches from deconstruction to reader-response theory, psychoanalysis and feminism. Steven Connor has written books on Dickens, Beckett and Postmodernist culture.
172 pages, Hardcover
First published September 30, 1992
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Steven Connor
41Ìýbooks10ÌýfollowersSteven Connor is Grace 2 Professor of English in the University of Cambridge, Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and Director of the Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH). Among his many books are explorations of aspects of the cultural history of the senses, including Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism (2000), The Book of Skin (2004), and Beckett, Modernism and the Material Imagination (2014). His most recent books are Dream Machines (2017), The Madness of Knowledge: On Wisdom, Ignorance and Fantasies of Knowledge (2019), and Giving Way: Thoughts on Unappreciated Dispositions (2019).
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October 25, 2008
Well, my Bulgarian edition did not have Endgame in it, just Waiting For Godot, but since it's not listed here, I'll have to make do with this one.
It's a thin book that I spent too much time reading. Well worth it though, it's one of those works that really show the complexity of human logic [or lack of], the randomness and ambiguity that are in our nature, and that i love to see exposed in such a masterful way. Beckett is truly one of a kind, he's a must. I was blown away by his writing when i first encountered him through his short stories.
It's a thin book that I spent too much time reading. Well worth it though, it's one of those works that really show the complexity of human logic [or lack of], the randomness and ambiguity that are in our nature, and that i love to see exposed in such a masterful way. Beckett is truly one of a kind, he's a must. I was blown away by his writing when i first encountered him through his short stories.
April 6, 2014
Very weird and nothing much to take from it. Barely worth my time.
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