Highly acclaimed for his abstract works, Avigdor Arikha's subjects ranged from self-portraits; portraits of his wife and his friend Samuel Beckett; to intimate interiors, such as the corner of his studio flat or still-lifes of objects as seemingly mundane as a pair of shoes or spectacles. This catalogue features 100 works on paper made by Arikha.
Following the acclaimed recordings of Beckett's Trilogy, Molloy , Malone Dies and The Unnamable , this title features two plays directed by John Tydeman. Last Tape finds an old man, with his tape recorder, musing over the past and future. Not I is a remarkable tour de force for a single actress, as a woman emits memories and fears.
This is the second in the famous trilogy of novels written by Samuel Beckett in the late 1940s. An old man is dying in a room. His bowl of soup comes, his pots are emptied. He waits to die. And while he waits, he constructs stories, mainly to pass the time. Saposcat, the Lambert family, Macmann and his nurse Moll.
Traducere de Ileana Cantuniari si Veronica Niculescu Samuel Beckett, cistigator al Premiului Nobel pentru Literatura, este unul dintre cei mai profunzi, mai originali scriitori ai secolului XX. Felul in care proza lui exprima suferinta si izolarea constiintei umane a schimbat fata literaturii universale. Beckett vorbea despre proza scurta ca despre unul dintre momentele importante ale operei sale, un mediu extrem de intens in care si-a distilat ideile. Strinsa intr-un singur volum, proza lui...
Samuel Beckett (1906 #8211;1989), unul dintre marii scriitori care au definit identitatea culturala a secolului XX, a excelat in domenii diverse #8212; de la dramaturgie la roman, de la nuvelistica la poezie si eseu. Nascut la Dublin intr-o familie de irlandezi protestanti, educat la Trinity College Dublin, unde a studiat franceza si italiana, Beckett s-a stabilit definitiv la Paris in 1950, nemairevenind niciodata in Irlanda natala. Printre operele sale cele mai cunoscute, in mare parte...