- Paperback: 418 pages
- Publisher: Calder Publications Ltd; New edition edition (27 Sep 1973)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 071451053X
- ISBN-13: 978-0714510538
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.4 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 522,630 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Fiction. The Trilogy has always been considered the central work of Samuel Beckett's fiction (winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1969), the three novels that have been most admired and have received the greatest amount of critical comment, just as Waiting for Godot written in the same period of concentrated creativity between 1947 and 1949, is central to Beckett's drama. "Beckett's oeuvre towers above that of most of his peers, as of his forebears and followers, because it's such a model of integrity: the beauty that is truth" -- Michail Howowitz.
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19 of 89 people found the following review helpful
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The trilogy is a single novel, with around a dozen scenes; the titles are largely irrelevant. It is just as good a novel in French, but both are worth reading as they play subtle tunes off each other.
Beckett is essentially a realist novelist. Most of the places described really exist. Even the non-existent places are realistically depicted. Feel the ambience. Read it for the plot. The story is clear and morally uplifting. Even a little over-simplistic. "I can't go on.I'll go on."! Read How it is for the next episode. The trilogy leads on from Watt so there is a prequel.
It is now routine to describe Beckett as the greatest writer in English of the Twentieth Century. Pardon me, some of us have known this for a long time, and it isn't because of Godot that we think it. There is one caveat. Beckett succeeded in his writing so emphatically because he limited himself to a range of themes which he mastered totally. He didn't take too many risks. He is the greatest, but there were others who had greater courage, and a noble failure sometimes outweighs a gem-like triumph.
I make two further claims about Beckett and myself.
1. I may be the all-time champion for youngest reader of at least part of the trilogy. In 1958 when I was eleven I read about half on Malone Dies, before the terror hit me. I had borrowed it because I thought that it was a thriller. I never forgot it and I read the trilogy around four years later. Never looked back.
2. Purely by accident I have sat at the very table Beckett is sitting at in the picture on the front of this edition. I never knew this before today because my copy is the first edition, with a really nice abstract design on the cover.
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A triumph of his own style
24 May 2000
Format:Paperback
An amazing book with a stylish touch that explores the paradox of the self that can never know itself; in the very act of observing itself the self splits in two, an observing consciousness and an object that is being observed. The self perceives itself as a stream of words, a narration. Each time it tries to catch up with itself, it merely turns into another story, thus putting before the reader a succession of storytellers. A must-read for anyone who cares about literature and who think that it still matters.
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