Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel BeckettDamned to Fame is the brilliant and insightful portrait of Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett, mysterious and reclusive master of twentieth-century literature. Professor James Knowlson, Beckett's chosen biographer and a leading authority on Beckett, vividly re-creates Beckett's life from his birth in a rural suburb of Dublin in 1906 to his death in Paris in 1989, revealing the real man behind the literary giant. Scrupulously researched and filled with previously unknown information garnered from interviews with the author and his friends, family, and contemporaries, Knowlson's unparalleled work is the definitive Beckett biography of our time. |
Contents
PREFACE | 19 |
Images of Childhood 190615 | 23 |
School Days 191523 | 48 |
The Growth of a Mind 192326 | 65 |
The Paris Years 192830 | 96 |
Return and Flight 193031 | 127 |
81 | 137 |
Dream of Fair to Middling Women 193233 | 143 |
Godot Love and Loss 195355 | 351 |
Impasse and Depression 195658 | 377 |
Censorship and How It Is 195860 | 400 |
Secret Wedding and Happy Days 196063 | 427 |
Theatre theatre theatre 196467 | 455 |
Accident Illness and Catastrophe 196769 | 485 |
Vision Restored 197074 | 509 |
Shades 197577 | 537 |
The London Years 193335 | 166 |
Murphy 193436 | 189 |
The Unknown Diaries 193637 | 217 |
A Permanent Home 193739 | 243 |
Exodus Occupation and Resistance 194042 | 273 |
Refuge in Roussillon 194245 | 291 |
Aftermath of War 194546 | 309 |
A Frenzy of Writing 194653 | 323 |
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