Samuel Beckett Is Closed

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
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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 Written according to a sequence laid out by Beckett in his notes to the unpublished “Long Observation of the Ray,” of which only six manuscript pages exist, this rhythm of themes and genres comprises a complex, mesmerizing work of fiction that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.