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@irenemax3574

Жыл бұрын

Also look for Samuel Beckett: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Martin Eslin. Published in 1965. Prentice-Hall, Inc.

This is very good. I think it's worth trying to understand Beckett for people who don't immediately respond to his work or who just don't "get" him, but I also believe that those who immediately find a kindred spirit in Beckett are always going to enjoy him more. If you've spent long, rainy, pointless evenings in coffee shops trying to work up the nerve to talk to other people without ever opening your mouth, if you go home feeling completely stunted and try to sleep but can't, if you pass the sleepless hours by tapping various points on the surface of your mattress to hear and feel the minor differences in the vibration of the springs, and if you'd be relieved to die right then and there, yet you get up the next morning and tell yourself, "Well, I'll try just once more, maybe twice, three times at most" (and you do, and things turn out *exactly* as they did before), then you'll understand Beckett. If you were the captain of the football team or the prom queen, you'll wonder what in God's name he was talking about and probably conclude that he was insane. That's all right. Beckett's not for everybody.

@yingyang1008

2 жыл бұрын

Internet access doesn't change this feeling, some kind of universal angst

@RoshDroz

Жыл бұрын

I was captain of the football team AND prom queen so I guess I'll never understand

The best doc on Becket--perceptive and concise, without a lot of pointless videos.

Beckett is one of my favorite authors. I never felt the need to understand him. As soon as I deal with the understanding of his texts, the whole magic of his words evaporates and what remains is a barren framework, a construct without life.

@SkyTortoiseFerryman

3 жыл бұрын

That sounds like you do understand him!

This is wonderful..... and beautifully narrated.... thank you.

@damienhunt4264

2 жыл бұрын

In complete agreement.

Oh dear another genius who can totally explain Beckett in less than, not ònly 90 years but 90 minutes. What an absolute genius

Minds are so very universally mysterious and similar. Many thanks.

Beckett's writing is often hilarious. So are documentaries about him.

@VladimirOnOccasion

3 жыл бұрын

that's because the narrative is the gloss removed by Beckett.

@Johnconno

3 жыл бұрын

@@VladimirOnOccasion Ah, I couldn't say, couldn't say.

@VladimirOnOccasion

3 жыл бұрын

@@Johnconno :D

Thank you for this accessible, well-narrated introduction.

@damienhunt4264

2 жыл бұрын

Completely agree.

There is no field or tree or lane or town to call ones home, but the search becomes in the end the bus we must ride to the end ,

Being able to write such stories in a language outside of his own language gets me.

I love Beckett . thank you for this.

Thank you. Illuminating, inspirational.

Thank you. That was wonderful.

well done! ❤thanks for sharing 👍

Absolutely excellent !!

Max Wall's Vladimir in Waiting For Godot was amazing

@xcaliberish

2 жыл бұрын

Plz explain the way you understood.. be it your relationship with characters or the plot.. it will be a great help

@RichMitch

2 жыл бұрын

@@xcaliberish I took it as the futility of life and how we have to develop meaning for ourselves. "Godot" being very close to the word God, both seemingly human constructs as a way of understanding ourselves. Always aiming for the horizon, never reaching it and then realising it

@BradBrassman

2 жыл бұрын

Max Wall and Leo McKern I believe.

@2msvalkyrie529

10 ай бұрын

His funny walk was better.

I see my self in samuel becket

Brilliant genius!Amazing Beckett.

Thank you for an enlightening Beckett literary biography, elegantly articulated. But why was there no mention of HAPPY DAYS? It was, I believe, one of Beckett's last stage successes

Thank you for this!

Thank you..wonderful

To call the unnamable "arid" is I think a huge mistake... it is one of the few pieces of text that brings tears to my eyes every single time I read it

@lukusridley

4 жыл бұрын

"each passage could be the gnomic prose-poem of our own experience"

@trabouliste1037

2 жыл бұрын

The Unnamable is the culmination of the „European literature and the Latin Middle Ages“, even if Ernst Robert Curtius never mentioned Samuel Beckett. It is pure joy to read.

The compassion...

is there a transscript for this video?

Thanks 🙏

Re Beckett being Joyce's secretary and taking down Joyce's dictation - anyone who has ever tried to read/let alone understand 'Finnegans Wake' will realise you can't take it down by dictation unless Joyce is spelling it out loud letter by letter rather than word by word. 'How are you spelling: Aches-ley pains?' Like the English Town. A?' The 'Come in' is obviously apocryphal.

His epiphany wasn't on Dún Laoghaire pier -- it was on a tiny pier in Killiney

good work here, yet why no mention of "Happy Days"? - adieu

Fabulous, thank you so much. However, it has to be said that the Irish accent is all over the place, and even includes an occasional visit to Scotland..

No mention of Happy Days? The one with a female protagonist and widely taught and produced in universities? Everything said about Beckett as an individual is true of the character Winnie, but apparently this is a survey from an exclusive male lens.

Beckett is as suggestive and referential to the traditions of European literature as Joyce but in a more hidden and sublimated way.

Duncan Idaho tells us about Beckett. Dunesception.

An excellent journey through Beckett’s life and mind or it that mindful life?

I quite enjoyed that. Better to get someone else to do those bits of Not I though. It's something that can't be done slow.

@irenemax3574

4 жыл бұрын

PollisDrake Yes! It hurts to listen to his slow halting delivery

A winding beautiful tale of pain and mental torture. A genius, but what agony he endured!

@jeffreyshampnois2471

Жыл бұрын

His humor suggests otherwise (as well).

Strathern never mentioned Happy Days.

Sure he's a pretty good writer,, but what a profound shock of pepper lock, lacing his widows peak!!!!

You cant understand Beckett in a lifetime, let alone 90 minutes...

@gjingodjango

5 жыл бұрын

A nd isn’t 5hat wonderful.

@irenemax3574

4 жыл бұрын

Fernando Graça All you need to do is spend a few months in Ireland.

@shangrila73eldorado

4 жыл бұрын

becket didnt understand himself

@gregleonard1562

3 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't agree or disagree or go so far as to say that so I would.

@cahillgreg

Жыл бұрын

@@irenemax3574 I spent 26 years there prior to emigration and still don't fully get him & so it should be.

Addendum: Merci infiniment for the the 'upload' Johnnie de Bangkok

38:00

The foibles of human nature and behaviour ?

Waiting for who...?

Superb narration. English as English should be spoken.

@cahillgreg

Жыл бұрын

Too quirky an accent for my ear.

1:19

Quite interesting thanks for uploading. You would have thought the narrator would have learned how to pronounce Godot.

1:44

I wonder how much Beckett's depression was worsened by him drinking a great deal. It could have been a self perpetuating circle. This is offered as a possible part explanation for Becketts tone - not to trivialise Becketts vital voice and insights.

Hello, do you have an email address I can use to contact you?

I can't go on...

@simonlee8889

3 жыл бұрын

I'll go on

@gregleonard1562

3 жыл бұрын

Ah go on.

@brouettesylvie8077

3 жыл бұрын

@@gregleonard1562 :)

The alienation of being a protestant in a catholic land maybe explains some things

@2msvalkyrie529

10 ай бұрын

More likely growing up in miserable s******e like Ireland ? No wonder he and Joyce left never to return. Mind you : it's nearly as bad today.

I once saw a youth theatre production of 'Endgame' which was both a brilliant comedy and a profound exploration of the depths of human experience throughout - and a few days later, a very tedious production directed by Beckett himself. Beckett's 'dead pan' humour needs to be played with some sort of 'twinkle in the eye', metaphorical or otherwise. He himself did not understand that completely. The productions directed by Beckett (many of which have been preserved on film) don't work very well, because they do not get much of the rich potential hovering within his sparse texts across, even to an audience of above average intelligence. It doesn't work to dead-pan dead-pan - It is simply counterproductive to reduce the means of communicating reduction

@cahillgreg

Жыл бұрын

In other words - different types of production cater to your specific taste. Congratulations on understanding what the nobel laureate couldn't.

@mossfitz

Жыл бұрын

@@cahillgreg Beethoven was a notoriously bad conducter of his own music. Debussy a poor pianist with his. I genuinely think that the Beckett productions he directed himself were not the best. It was a great way for the writer to engage with something outside his lonely writing desk, and the productions are highly interesting nevertheless. Have you heard writers reading their own material? They are mostly (with exceptions of course) almost unbearably bad readers as compared with experienced actors.

Samuel Beckett died #otd in 1989 ⚰️

Shouldn't someone now write Muffy and Hwat? Alloy, Stalone Dies and The Lino Mob, Le? Waiting for Krish-Nae? Crap's Last NFT? may not be ready for that one yet, how about then Krappps' Last Podcast (Krappp is, to be sure, non-binary and pluralized!).

Good but whats with the dodgy Irish accent?

Ireland had been destroyed by British policies. The Catholic Church was it's only friend. You're totally biased and wrong about Ireland.

Ulster "elected" not to be part of what was to become the republic. That plus the appalling lapses into an Irish accent is no more than a history rewrite.

The put-on Irish accent at every text reading made this unlisenable after about 20 mins.

@TD-qy5gn

2 жыл бұрын

Beckett was of Anglo Saxon descent and his early life was more than comfortable. His accent would most certainly not have been that of his impoverished Irish countrymen. Your comment was very apt.

@TD-qy5gn

2 жыл бұрын

Beckett was of Anglo Saxon descent and his early life was more than comfortable. His accent would most certainly not have been that of his impoverished Irish countrymen. Your comment was very apt.

@yingyang1008

2 жыл бұрын

To be sure, to be sure

@cahillgreg

Жыл бұрын

@@yingyang1008 ah here

@2msvalkyrie529

10 ай бұрын

Like most great " Irish " writers ( Shaw / Wilde / Sheridan etc ) they were protest ANGLO Irish. They were NOT living in the bogs of Mayo , cutting peats and living on spuds and herring. It's a moot point whether they were actually " Irish " at all ??!

Full of inaccuracies. Drivel

Am I the only one who got sent here through a Reddit post. This isn't funny.

I adore Sam Beckett but I despise Le Cricket! (Samuel Beckett was a respected cricket player - not his fault) Now, this anachronistic, colonial, goofy game called cricket should be phased out! This is how it can be done: Step One: ADIDAS, BMW, Hugo Boss and Porsche will donate 999 Million footballs to Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. StepTwo: The Kiwis, the Aussies, the South Africans and West Indies will follow. In five to ten years one of these great countries will qualify for FIFA World Cup. Think about the children! Your sons and daughters. YOU really want them to play CRICKET? Bangkok-Johnny CarSanook Media Thailand (where the only cricket we know is the insect)

@RichMitch

4 жыл бұрын

I never read such bollocks

@simonlee8889

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry to spoil the plan, but the Chinese are VERY keen on cricket... something to do with its similarity to chess, the psychological dimension to playing it over a long period and the intense concentration involved, not to mention the physical strength and ball-playing skills required... All in all, the Dao of Cricket greatly appeals to them.. It's growing fast there... piss off

@apexxxx10

3 жыл бұрын

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@cahillgreg

Жыл бұрын

@@simonlee8889 You mustn't let it upset you so.

@cahillgreg

Жыл бұрын

@@RichMitch Behave!