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Samuel Beckett

• Jan 19, 2024 Waiting For Godot By Samuel Beckett I've been seeing references to Borges' story Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote around a bit, for whatever reason (it is the one about Pierre Menard, through diligent scholarship, rewriting and recreating Don Quixote, line for line). And classic Borges it is a wonderfully compelling idea, what does it take to rewrite and recreate the conditions to write precisely the same story? I don't think I have it in me to recreate Don Quixote but I think, given the time and motivation, I could recreate Waiting for Godot line for line, word for word.
• Feb 27, 2024 Molloy By Samuel Beckett Maybe I am biased, predisposed by the forces of Canonized Culture, to find such great beauty in the stream-of-conscious depiction of a man (two? or just the one?) on an odyssey of his own making in Ireland - but this was really good. Rereading Waiting for Godot made me think that huh, Beckett is pretty good. Reading this makes me think that Beckett, for all his worldwide fame, is under-appreciated? A potentially backhanded compliment: I think this should be on high-school curricula. Gotta love a miserable misanthrope, gotta love a confused bumbler, gotta love these slices of humanity.
• Jul 1, 2024 Malone Dies By Samuel Beckett