Samuel Beckett Is Closed

- Authors
- Coffey, Michael
- Publisher
- Published by Foxrock Books in collaboration with OR Books
- Tags
- literary criticism
- ISBN
- 9781944869595
- Date
- 2017-12-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.51 MB
- Lang
- en
A baseball game. Officially sanctioned torture. A chance encounter at a bar. A conversation between a parent and child. News reports of terrorist attacks.
These—plus a meditation on the transformative power of the undying work of Samuel Beckett—make up the interwoven strands of this short work by poet and critic Michael Coffey. Written according to a sequence laid out by Beckett in his notes to the unpublished “Long Observation of the Ray,” of which only six manuscript pages exist, this rhythm of themes and genres comprises a complex, mesmerizing work of fiction that has its roots in reality.