Bøger af Samuel Beckett

Collected here in one volume, Samuel Beckett's three novels, which are among the most beautiful and disquieting of his later prose works, come together with the powerful resonance of his famous "Three Novels" "Molloy," "Malone Dies," "The Unnamable."In "Company," a voice comes to "one on his back in the dark" and speaks to him, describing significant moments in life, and yet we are told it is all a fable, memories or figments devised or imagined for the sake of company. "Ill Seen Ill Said" focuses attention on an old woman in a cabin who is part of the objects, landscape, rhythms, and movements of an incomprehensible universe. And in "Worstward Ho," Beckett explores a tentative, uncertain existence in a world devoid of rational meaning and purpose. Here is language pared down to its most expressive, confirming Beckett's position as one of the great writers of our time.

The first novel of Samuel Beckett's mordant and exhilarating midcentury trilogy introduces us to Molloy, who has been mysteriously incarcerated, and who subsequently escapes to go discover the whereabouts of his mother. In the latter part of this curious masterwork, a certain Jacques Moran is deputized by anonymous authorities to search for the aforementioned Molloy. In the trilogy's second novel, Malone, who might or might not be Molloy himself, addresses us with his ruminations while in the act of dying. The third novel consists of the fragmented monologue-delivered, like the monologues of the previous novels, in a mournful rhetoric that possesses the utmost splendor and beauty-of what might or might not be an armless and legless creature living in an urn outside an eating house. Taken together, these three novels represent the high-water mark of the literary movement we call Modernism. Within their linguistic terrain, where stories are taken up, broken off, and taken up again, where voices rise and crumble and are resurrected, we can discern the essential lineaments of our modern condition, and encounter an awesome vision, tragic yet always compelling and always mysteriously invigorating, of consciousness trapped and struggling inside the boundaries of nature.

"Über dieses Jahrhundertstück des irischen Nobelpreisträgers Samuel Beckett schrieb der Philosoph Günther Anders: »Der Clown ist von einer Traurigkeit, die, da sie das traurige Los der Menschen überhaupt abspiegelt, die Herzen all Menschen solidarisiert und durch diese ihre Solidarisierung erleichtert... Die Farce scheint zum Refugium der Menschenliebe geworden zu sein: die Komplizenhaftigkeit der Traurigen zum letzten Trost. Und weiß auch die Tröstung nicht, warum sie tröstet und auf welchen Godot sie vertröstet - sie beweist, daß Wärme wichtiger ist als Sinn; und daß es nicht der Metaphysiker ist, der das letzte Wort behalten darf, sondern nur der Menschenfreund.«"

This volume completes the publication of this series of notebooks, the plays in question being Play, Come and Go, Eh Joe, Footfalls, That Time and What Where.

Samuel Beckett directed Krapp's Last Tape on four separate occasions: this volume offers a facsimile of his 1969 Schiller-Theater notebook. Professor Knowlson writes that in these notes 'we see Beckett simplifying, shaping and refining, as he works towards a realization of the play that will function well dramatically.

»Jeg åbnede øjnene igen. Jeg var alene. Jeg havde hænderne fulde af græs og jord som jeg havde revet op uden at vide af det, stadig rev op. Jeg rev bogstavelig talt op med rode. Jeg holdt op med det, ja, i samme øjeblik jeg forstod hvad jeg havde gjort, hvad jeg gjorde, noget så gement, holdt jeg op med det, jeg åbnede hænderne, de var snart tomme.« Molloy af Samuel Beckett, udgivet af Les Éditions de Minuit i Paris 1951, er et af litteraturens store mesterværker. På dansk ved Karsten Sand Iversen.

Written in French in the late forties before Waiting for Godot, Eleutheria is about a young man at odds with his middle-class family, living alone in a bedsit and refusing to take part in 'normal' life while accepting handouts from his mother.

As the story begins, Belacqua - a young version of Molloy, whose love is divided between two women, Smeraldina-Rima and the little Alba - 'wrestles with his lusts and learning across vocabularies and continents, before a final "relapse into Dublin"' (New Yorker).