Deirdre bair samuel beckett

  • Samuel Beckett has become the standard work on the enigmatic, controversial, and Nobel Prize-winning creator of such contributions to 20th-century theater as Waiting for Godot and Endgame.
  • An excellent, sensitively-written biography of the great Irish playwright.
  • The story of Beckett's life and his extreme sufferings and spiritual anguish, as told by Deirdre Bair, is both horrifying and fascinating, and she does seem to.

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    Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone De Beauvoir, And Me: A Memoir

    A PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year National Book Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants and revealing secrets of the biographical art. In Deirdre Bair was a journalist and recently minted Ph.D. who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett. He agreed that she could be his biographer despite her never having written--or even read--a biography before. The next seven years comprised of intimate conversations, intercontinental research, and peculiar cat-and-mouse games. Battling an elusive Beckett and a string of jealous, misogynistic male writers, Bair persevered. She wrote Samuel Beckett: A Biography, which went on to win the National Book Award and propel Deirdre to her next subject: Simone de Beauvoir. The catc

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    Samuel Beckett

    In the first biography of Samuel Beckett, Deirdre Bair chronicles Beckett’s tumultuous relationship with his family, the psychosomatic illnesses that often kept him from writing, and the autobiographical strains of his work.

    In a remarkable literary biography, Dierdre Bair sheds light on Nobel Prizewinning novelist and playwright Samuel Beckett in one of the most important and fascinating reads about his life.

    From his upper-middle-class Irish childhood, his early years in Paris, his complex relationship with James Joyce, the psychological anguish of his apprenticeship, his heroic service with the French Resistance, and everything in between, Bair portrays the life of a despairing poet and an enigmatic artist through hundreds of interviews and years of research in Europe.

    Samuel Beckett tells of his relationships with publishers, actors, directors, and friends, as well as his struggles in creating the masterful work that led to his fame, providing a book that

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    Samuel Beckett

    August 15,
    Deirdre Bair, may she rest in peace, was the first biographer to be permitted by the Master to attempt to infiltrate the impenetrable mist of obfuscation with which he purposefully had always surrounded himself. She was at the time an American former graduate student who lionized his enlightened aura.

    She sees Beckett from the outside, being a little wet behind the ears.

    Sure, she digs, and in fact was the first to publicly talk of Beckett's certified unstable mental health during and after the War. Beckett's ultimate authorized biographer, James Knowlson, dismissed such claims, though doubtless Bair, in the seventies had able access to interviews with Beckett's wartime confrères.

    Hers is an extroverted biography. Perhaps she dug too deep for the writer's liking.

    In it, for instance we learn of Beckett’s brief fling with the heiress Gloria Vanderbilt, terminated abruptly by Beckett, apparently, as her sophisticated lifestyle may have driven him close t