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Dream of Fair to Middling Women: A Novel

Door Samuel Beckett

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#330465-VC31
Titel	Dream of Fair to Middling Women: A Novel
Auteur	Beckett, Samuel
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover
Uitgeverij	Arcade
Jaar van uitgave	2011
ISBN10	1611453135
ISBN13	9781611453133
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original cloth with mounted pate, 8vo.
Samenvatting	This is Samuel Beckett's first novel and “literary landmark” (St. Petersburg Times)—a savory introduction to the Nobel Prize–winning author. Written in the summer of 1932, when the twenty-six-year-old Beckett was poor and struggling to make ends meet, Dream of Fair to Middling Women offers a rare and revealing portrait of the artist as a young man. Later on, Beckett would call the novel “the chest into which I threw all my wild thoughts.” When he submitted it to several publishers, all of them found it too literary, too scandalous, or too risky, and it was sadly never published during his lifetime. In this stunning first novel, Belacqua—a young version of Molloy, whose love is divided between two women, Smeraldina-Rima and Alba—“wr... (Lees verder)estles with his lusts and learning across vocabularies and continents, before a final 'relapse into Dublin',” says the New Yorker. Youthfully exuberant and visibly influenced by Joyce, Dream of Fair to Middling Women is a work of extraordinary virtuosity. Beckett delights in the wordplay and sheer joy of language that mark his later work. Above all in this handsomely bound hardcover edition, the story brims with the black humor that, like brief stabs of sunlight, pierces the darkness of his vision.
Pagina's	241
Conditie	Goed — Dedication on first endpaper.
Prijs	€ 20,00

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