Samuel Beckett : a collection of critical essays / edited by Martin Esslin. - viii, 182 pages ; 21 cm. - Twentieth century views. . - Twentieth century views. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages: 181-182).

Introduction / Martin Esslin -- Three dialogues / Samuel Beckett and Georges Duthuit -- The private pain and the whey of words : a survey of Beckett's verse / John Fletcher -- Samuel Beckett : humor and the void / Maurice Nadeau -- The Beckett hero / A.J. Leventhal -- The Cartesian centaur / Hugh Kenner -- Watt / Jacqueline Hoefer -- Samuel Beckett and universal parody / Jean- Jacques Mayoux -- Failure of an attempt at de-mythologization : Samuel Beckett's novels / Dieter Wellershoff -- Samuel Beckett, or 'presence' in the theatre / Alain Robbe-Grillet -- Reflections on Samuel Beckett's plays / Eva Metman -- Being without time : on Beckett's play Waiting for Godot / Gunther Anders -- Beckett's brinkmanship / Ross Chambers -- Philosophical fragments in the works of Samuel Beckett / Ruby Cohn.

Contemporary critical opinion and commentary on Samuel Beckett and his works.


Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 --Criticism and interpretation.

PR6003.E282 / Z64 1965