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Audiolibro.

Audiolibro.

Becketts first stage play portrays two tramps, trapped in an endless waiting for the arrival of a mysterious personage named Godot, while disputing the appointed place and hour of his coming. They amuse themselves with various bouts of repartee and word-play.

Cuando en 1953 se estrenó en París Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabía quien era Samuel Beckett, salvo, quizá, los que ya lo conocían como ex secretario de otro irlandés, no menos genial, James Joyce. Por aquellas fechas, Beckett tenia escrita ya gran parte de su obra literaria ; sin embargo, para muchos, paso a ser el autor de Esperando a Godot. Se dice que, desde aquella primera puesta en escena -que, realizada por el gran Roger Blin, causo estupefaccion y obtuvo tanto exito- hasta nuestros dias, no ha habido año en que, en algun lugar de nuestro planeta, no se haya representado Esperando a Godot. ¡Mas de cuarenta años en los escenarios del mundo ! El propio Beckett comento en cierta ocasion, poco depues de recibir el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1969, que Esperando a Godot era una obra horriblemente comica. Si, todo lo horriblemente comica que puede resultar, a fin de cuentas, la angustiosa situacion limite de dos seres cuya vida y grotesca solidaridad se forjan el la absurda y vana espera de ese quien sabe que (o quien) al que llaman Godot

Il volume raccoglie una scelta dei testi piu importanti di Samuel Beckett in una nuova cura, con introduzione di Paolo Bertinetti e traduzioni curate da Carlo Fruttero e firmate dallo stesso Fruttero, da Floriana Bossi, John Francis Lane, Franco Lucentini. Queste le opere raccolte: Aspettando Godot, Finale di partita, Tutti quelli che cadono, L'ultimo nastro di Krapp, Giorni felici, Parole e musica, Commedia, Di' Joe, Respiro, Non io, Quella volta, Dondolo.

Deutora de la primera etapa de Beckett, d'experimentació literària, "Mercier i Camier" subverteix en molts aspectes el gènere novel·lesc. En aquesta brillant obra mestra de l'humor, s'hi narra un via

Written over three months in 1946, Mercier and Camier was Becketts first post-war work, and his first novel in French. He came to regard it as a practice piece, and set it aside to write his trilogy. Mercier et Camier was finally published in 1970, and in Becketts English translation four years later. The eponymous heroes tramp around a city, then out of it, then back again. They are aimless, but there is something elusive that they should be doing. They arrange meetings, they drink, they argue, they discuss being shot of each other. They are preoccupied by the weather, by provisions, by a raincoat, by an umbrella, by a bicycle...All of these ingredients in the later work are accompanied here, fleetingly, by those things in Beckett that we know but cannot really name, those things that occupy so much of the trilogy. Intangible things, traps in the mind, that voice we hear, the stop-start understanding, the ongoing bewilderment, the fear. (Keith Ridgeway). George, said Camier, five sandwiches, four wrapped and one on the side. You see, he said, turning graciously to Mr Conaire, I think of everything. For the one I eat here will give me the strength to get back with the four others. Sophistry, said Mr Conaire. You set off with your five, wrapped, feel faint, open up, take one out, eat, recuperate, push on with the others. For all response, Camier began to eat. Youll spoil him, said Mr Conaire. Yesterday cakes, today sandwiches, tomorrow crusts and Thursday stones. Mustard, said Camier.

Becketts first literary landmark (St Petersburg Times) is a wonderfully savoury introduction to the Nobel Prize-winning author. Written in 1932, when the twenty-six-year-old Beckett was struggling to make ends meet, the novel offers a rare and revealing portrait of the artist as a young man. When submitted to several publishers, all of them found it too literary, too scandalous or too risky; it was only published posthumously in 1992. As the story begins, Belacqua - a young version of Molloy, whose love is divided between two women, Smeraldina-Rima and the little Alba - wrestles with his lusts and learning across vocabularies and continents, before a final "relapse into Dublin" (New Yorker). Youthfully exuberant and Joycean in tone, Dream is a work of extraordinary virtuosity.

Subtitled A tragicomedy in two Acts, and famously described by the Irish critic Vivien Mercier as a play in which nothing happens, twice, En attendant Godot was first performed at the Théâtre de Baby

These four stories or nouvelles date from 1945, though all were published much later, in French and subsequently in English. All make use of a first-person narrator, and relish its vagaries - the inability to remember facts, the uncertainty as to why he is speaking in the first place, the loss of heart when explanations seem called for... Above all, the stories crisply plot the narrators plotless descent into vagrancy, the steeper as it approaches The End. Out of these short works and their patient procedures grew the large canvases of Molloy and Malone Dies.My bench was still there. It was shaped to fit the curves of the seated body. It stood beside a watering trough, gift of a Mrs Maxwell to the city horses, according to the inscription. During the short time I rested there, several horses took advantage of the monument. The iron shoes approached and the jingle of the harness. Then silence. That was the horse looking at me. Then the noise of pebbles and mud that horses make when drinking. Then the silence again. That was the horse looking at me again. Then the pebbles again. Then the silence again. Till the horse had finished drinking or the driver deemed it had drunk its fill. Edited by Christopher Ricks

De origen irlandés, Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) abandona su país en 1932 y decide trasladarse a Francia. Allí escribe en francés sus obras más conocidas -Molloy, El innombrable, Esperando a Godot, Final de partida...-, por las que recibe el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1969. Instalado voluntariamente en la inestabilidad, utiliza de forma simultanea el frances y el ingles hasta el final de su vida. Novelista y dramaturgo traducido a todas las lenguas, su faceta poetica ha sido mucho menos resaltada. Sin embargo los poemas de Beckett, y en especial Mirlitonnades -quiebros o versos malos- ofrecen una nueva lectura del conjunto de su produccion y conectan directamente con sus composiciones para el cine, la radio o la television, revelando al poeta extranjero por excelencia, incluso de la propia literatura.

De meme que Dante chemine de cercle en cercle pour atteindre son Enfer ou son Paradis, de meme Samuel Beckett situe-t-il, chacun dans un cercle bien distinct, les trois principaux protagonistes des romans de sa trilogie, Molloy, Malone meurt et L''Innommable, afin qu''il atteignent, peut-etre, le neant auquel ils aspirent. D''un roman a l''autre, ce cercle est de plus en plus reduit. Beaucoup plus a l''etroit que Molloy, voici donc Malone fige dans une chambre close, gisant quasi immobile dans son lit, attendant sa mort prochaine. Le seul cheminement apparemment possible est celui du regard qu''il pose sur les objets qui l''entourent. Cependant Malone possede un crayon et un cahier : il va ecrire. II va decrire son etat par le menu, de façon tout a la fois savoureuse et bouleversante, mais aussi il va enfin s''exiler de soi vers la peripherie ou reside l''imaginaire : il va pouvoir inventer. " Vivre et inventer. (...) vivre, faire vivre, etre autrui, en moi, en autrui. . Des lors, ce sont d''incessants allers et retours du centre jusqu''a la circonference, cet ailleurs ou prennent vie les personnages rocambolesques qu''il cree. Et doucement mon petit espace vrombit, a nouveau. Vous me direz que c''est dans ma tete, et il me semble souvent en effet que je suis dans une tete, que ces huit, non, ces six parois sont en os massif, mais de la a dire que c''est ma tete a moi, non, ça jamais. Malone gagne ce domaine peripherique ou tantot il semble s''inventer lui-meme, tantot il se metamorphose en l''un ou l''autre des personnages qu''il invente. Est-il encore Malone ou serait-il devenu Macmann ? Les limites deviennent floues, la frontiere s''abolit entre l''ecrivain Malone et ses personnages, comme aussi, fort subtilement, entre l''ecrivain Samuel Beckett et Malone, son personnage. Mal

En Murphy, primera novela de Samuel Beckett, escrita todavía en i nglés, aparecen ya con sorprendente madurez los elementos que caracterizarán su obra posterior."Mediante un procedimiento que destaca por su logica", nos dice Olga Bernal,"el autor arranca a su protagonista del mundo de los hombres, y lo situa, al mismo tiempo, fuera del ambito de la razon fuera y del ambito de la locura, colocandolo, desde un principio en este espacio caracteristico de la obra de Beckett que no es lugar alguno."

"El propòsit sempre és callar. Primer i últim propòsit. Cada escriptor que escriu ho fa, cada vegada que escriu, per no tornar a escriure mai més. I cada text que se li apareix és producte de la seva

Escrita en inglés y publicada en 1983, Rumbo a peor era la última gran obra de Beckett que quedaba por traducir en España. Con una sintaxis mínima y un estilo sintético, Beckett describe la maravilla y el dolor de la vida con una audacia y una intensidad poetica que hace de esta obra uno de los textos capitales del siglo XX. Esta edicion bilingue demuestra el exito alcanzado por cinco traductores, que se han atrevido a llevar a cabo lo que el propio Beckett no se atrevio a hacer, pues se vio incapaz de traducir esta obra suya al frances.