Dante And The Lobster

by Samuel Beckett

2021-01-01 07:46:58

Well, thought Belacqua, it''s a quick death, God help us all. It is not. Dante and the Lobster" is the first of the linked short stories in Samuel Beckett''s first book, More Pricks Than Kicks . Published in 1934, its style was recognisa... Read more
Well, thought Belacqua, it''s a quick death, God help us all. It is not. Dante and the Lobster" is the first of the linked short stories in Samuel Beckett''s first book, More Pricks Than Kicks . Published in 1934, its style was recognisably indebted to that of his mentor, James Joyce, and crammed with linguistic texture and allusion that Beckett later shed. The book baffled many critics and sold so few copies that several batches were pulped. Decades later, this story was hailed as the Nobel Prize-winner''s earliest important work." Less

Book Details

File size4.43 X 6.44 X 0.15 in
Print pages48
PublisherFaber & Faber Inc
Publication date October 18, 2019
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780571351800
Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 Dec 1989) was an Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. Beckett's idiosyncratic work offers a ble...

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