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| AUTHOR: | Lawrence Graver |
| CATEGORY: | Book |
| MANUFACTURER: | Cambridge University Press |
| ISBN: | 052184004X |
| TYPE: | Drama, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Plays, Plays / Drama, Drama / British & Irish, Drama texts: from c 1900 - |
| MEDIA: | Hardcover |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
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Customer Reviews of Beckett: Waiting for Godot (Landmarks of World Literature (New))
ignore the stars, please I just received this book and haven't read it yet. It looks quite good.
HOWEVER! because I read the description too quickly, and because I was misled by the other reader reviews, I thought that the actual text of the play was here, in both languages, in addition to a critical apparatus. Not so!
All of the other reader reviews are about Beckett's play itself, which is not part of this book!
Why is waiting for Godot like waiting for a bus?
Because you wait and wait, and then three don't turn up at once.
Samuel Beckett's Pyramid
I discovered 'Waiting for Godot' when I was 15 and it is still my favourite play 15 years later. It deals with human frailty, and shouts out all the big questions like, 'Why are we here'? Beckett asks us to confront one the the bigest concerns ever faced by human kind and that is 'Is there such a thing as eternity, and if there is what is it's purpose'? Every culture has myths and mechanisms which seek to understand the eternal. The Egyptians tried to conquer eternity with their pryamids and I belive that 'Waiting For Godot' is the modern equivalent. Waiting for Godot is touching and humerous at times, but also filled with bitter irony. It is a play that speaks for human kind and it lets us know that we are not alone with our frailty. I can not reccomend this play enough. Samuel Beckett certainly deserved to win the Nobel Prize for literature.