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Worstward Ho (Beckett Shorts Vol 4) (Paperback)

by Samuel Beckett (Author)
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Product details

  • Paperback: 48 pages
  • Publisher: Calder Publications Ltd; New edition edition (Mar 1984)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0714540064
  • ISBN-13: 978-0714540061
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.4 x 0.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 644,487 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Book Description

The most condensed of all Beckett's prose works, this is a
short parable of amazing audacity that describes life coming into being and
the whole impossible process of creation. Man comes from some distant
chemical accident and seems destined to go out to conquer the stars.
Economy of words does not lessen the poetic intensity of this beautiful
late work.


From the Back Cover

The second last prose text, Worstward Ho, the latter is a
novella written in 1983, shortly after the largely autobiographical Company
and Ill Seen Ill Said, and ironic theological speculation, both previously
published as the first two parts of a late trilogy of short novels. The
concentration of language and precision of description in the current work
is revolutionary, even for Beckett, the great reshaper of literary
expression, and its theme is the creation of life, as if by a malignant God
or Demiurge. Life, against all possibility, finally exists, and man becomes
a painful presence. It is one of the supreme poetic texts of the 20th
century.

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5.0 out of 5 stars buy it!, 10 Nov 2001
the single best piece of writing in the history of western literature! very funny. very philosophical. very faux-depressing. very, very quotable.
you will, perhaps have initial trouble with the syntax, but this is quickly overcome. unless you are my sister - who thinks this great book is just, 'words strung together at random'. she is obviously mad.
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