Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett

Type

Book

Authors

James Knowlson

ISBN 10

0684836580

ISBN 13

9780684836584

Tags

Actors & Entertainers, Authors, Theatre, Humor & Entertainment, History, Movements & Periods

Description

Damned to Fame is the brilliant and insightful portrait of Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett, mysterious and reclusive master of twentieth-century literature. Professor James Knowlson, Beckett's chosen biographer and a leading authority on Beckett, vividly re-creates Beckett's life from his birth in a rural suburb of Dublin in 1906 to his death in Paris in 1989, revealing the real man behind the literary giant. Scrupulously researched and filled with previously unknown information garnered from interviews with the author and his friends, family, and contemporaries, Knowlson's unparalleled work is the definitive Beckett biography of our time.

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