Samuel Beckett

Not Crap.

Let's hope someday he makes that final Leap home.

A friend of mine used to have a great record of two Beckett monologues. One of the monologues is a guy on a beach explaining about passing stones between his pockets via his mouth. Intermittently, he breaks off into incoherant mumbling about his mother. I have absolutely no memory what this record was called or who was performing the piece...I just looked it up and the monlogue is called:

Molloy's Sucking Stones

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Cranius wrote:A friend of mine used to have a great record of two Beckett monologues. One of the monologues is a guy on his beach explaining about passing stones between his pockets via his mouth. Intermittently he breaks off into incoherant mumbling about his mother. I have absolutely no memory what this record was called or who was performing the piece...I just looked it up and the monlogue is called:

Molloy's Sucking Stones

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I remember that passage! It drove an English lit friend of mine nuts when she had to study it. Reading it is probably as good as any test for whether you're going to like him or not.

I love the Trilogy (including Molloy), and I think "Worstward Ho" is one of my favourite pieces of literature. So simple, so perfect! The "fail again, fail better" repetition seems an excellent introduction and summary of his approach.

LVP: Thank you. I was asking for that.

Not Crap.

There hasn't been a playwright since that's been as original and as unique.

His contemporary Ionesco deserves more 'props' too.

Despite cricket man (pictured below) trying to ruin Waiting for Godot and various Ionesco plays, Becket is most certainely NC, except for when forced upon you by a man who has a simplistic understanding of his philosophies.

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If anyone in London is interested, there's a lot of Beckett-related activity on at the moment to commemorate his centenary.

Here's a little article on this from the BBC website.

Rimbaud III, thanks for the Ionesco tip; I've just read 'Rhinocerous' - good stuff.

sparky wrote:If anyone in London is interested, there's a lot of Beckett-related activity on at the moment to commemorate his centenary.

Here's a little article on this from the BBC website.

Rimbaud III, thanks for the Ionesco tip; I've just read 'Rhinocerous' - good stuff.

If you haven't already read it, then might I suggest THIS book?

Will do, Mildew

Thanks!

I certainly can't be the only one to have noticed a resemblance between these two gentlemen...