📱 eBook en inglés BECKETT IN DUBLIN

Ireland, and in particular Dublin, was Samuel Becketts cradle, a place, in Eoin OBriens words, he revisited with the same intensity that Proust went back to Combray. It was fitting, then, shortly after Becketts death, that his birthplace – through the good offices of the Gate Theatre, Trinity College and Radió Telefís Éireann – should have decided to honour the 1969 Nobel prize-winner by staging all of his dramatic productions over three weeks during October 1991 and hosting a series of visual displays, lectures, seminars and discussions by local and international scholars, friends and colleagues, of which Beckett in Dublin is the fruit. Part One, A Man of Theatre, concerns Becketts stagecraft, with learned essays by his English editor James Knowlson and American collaborator S.E. Gontarski, and a lively reminiscence by French actor Jean Martin, who played Lucky in the original production of En attendant Godot in 1953. Part Two, Themes and Structures, ranges from a feminine focus in Beckett examined by the American academic Linda Ben-Zvi, through pieces by Katherine Worth, Declan Kiberd and Rosemary Pountney, to the post-modernist reckonings of reader in English at the University of London, Stephen Connor. Part Three, At Heart a Dubliner, reaffirms the writers human dimensions with recollections by his publisher John Calder and friend Georges Belmont, concluding with appreciations of Beckett as a poet and Irishman by Brendan Kennelly and James Mays. One of the books most striking features is a sequence of Rembrandtesque photographs by Tom Lawlor of each of Becketts plays, taken at the Gate Theatre performances. They form a visual tribute to this powerful dramatist and writer