Disjecta: Miscellaneous Writings and a Dramatic Fragment

by Samuel Beckett, Ruby Cohn (Editor)

Overview

“[Beckett] is a serious writer with something serious to say about the human condition: and therefore one of the dozen or so writers those who are concerned with modern man in search of his soul should read.”—Stephen Spender, The New York Times

Renowned Beckett scholar Ruby Cohn has selected some of Beckett's criticisms, reviews, letters, and other unpublished materials that shed new light on his work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802151292
Publisher:	Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Publication date:	02/06/1995
Series:	Beckett, Samuel
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.40(d)

Editorial Reviews

Beckett has learned well from his master, Joyce. He is an incomparable spell-binder....He writes with a rhetoric and music that -- as with some passages of Henry James and D. H. Lawrence -- make a poet green with envy....He is a serious writer with something serious to say about the human condition: and therefore one of the dozen or so writers those who are concerned with modern man in search of his soul should read. -- The New York Times

Stephen Spender

Beckett has learned well from his master, Joyce. He is an incomparable spellbinder….He writes with a rhetoric and music that—as with some passages of Henry James and D.H. Lawrence—make a poet green with envy….He is a serious writer with something serious to say about the human condition: and therefore one of the dozen or so writers those who are concerned with modern man in search of his soul should read.
—The New York Times

Stephen Spender