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SEHR schönes Exemplar der maßgeblichen Biographie. BEILIEGT: Ausführlicher Zeitungsartikel von Willi Winkler in der SZ (2003) über Becketts Tagebuch des Deutschland-Besuchs im jahr 1936. A triumph of scholarship and sympathy. one of the great post-war biographies` - Independent A landmark in scholarly criticism. Knowlson is the world`s largest Beckett scholar. His life is right up there with George Painter`s Proust and Richard Ellmann`s Joyce in sensitivity and fascination` - Daily Telegraph It is hard to imagine a fuller portrait of the man who gave our age some of the myths by which it lives` - Samuel Beckett`s long-standing friend, James Knowlson, recreates Beckett`s youth in Ireland, his studies at Trinity College, Dublin in the early 1920s and from there to the Continent, where he plunged into the multicultural literary society of late-1920s Paris. The biography throws new light on Beckett`s stormy relationship with his mother, the psychotherapy he received after the death of his father and his crucial relationship with James Joyce. There is also material on Beckett`s six-month visit to Germany as the Nazi`s tightened their grip. The book includes unpublished material on Beckett`s personal life after he chose to live in France, including his own account of his work for a Resistance cell during the war, his escape from the Gestapo and his retreat into hiding. Obsessively private, Beckett was wholly committed to the work which eventually brought his public fame, beginning with the controversial success of "Waiting for Godot" in 1953, and culminating in the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. Originalpappband mit Original-Schutzumschlag. XXIV, 872 Seiten.

SEHR schönes Exemplar der maßgeblichen Biographie. BEILIEGT: Ausführlicher Zeitungsartikel von Willi Winkler in der SZ (2003) über Becketts Tagebuch des Deutschland-Besuchs im jahr 1936. A triumph of scholarship and sympathy. one of the great post-war biographies` - Independent A landmark in scholarly criticism. Knowlson is the world`s largest Beckett scholar. His life is right up there with George Painter`s Proust and Richard Ellmann`s Joyce in sensitivity and fascination` - Daily Telegraph It is hard to imagine a fuller portrait of the man who gave our age some of the myths by which it lives` - Samuel Beckett`s long-standing friend, James Knowlson, recreates Beckett`s youth in Ireland, his studies at Trinity College, Dublin in the early 1920s and from there to the Continent, where he plunged into the multicultural literary society of late-1920s Paris. The biography throws new light on Beckett`s stormy relationship with his mother, the psychotherapy he received after the death of his father and his crucial relationship with James Joyce. There is also material on Beckett`s six-month visit to Germany as the Nazi`s tightened their grip. The book includes unpublished material on Beckett`s personal life after he chose to live in France, including his own account of his work for a Resistance cell during the war, his escape from the Gestapo and his retreat into hiding. Obsessively private, Beckett was wholly committed to the work which eventually brought his public fame, beginning with the controversial success of "Waiting for Godot" in 1953, and culminating in the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969.

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