some re-fresh research on Beckett

some re-fresh research on Beckett
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Beckett

which part of that entry is fresh?

the left or, maybe, the right? ;-)

checking films for "Beginning to End" film with McGowran, looks like it's disappeared, too bad, a great film. Haven't heard any of the radio/audio recordings.

>3 tros: Always great to hear of Beckett. I am reading all the novels again this Spring/Summer.

the "trilogy" is my fave, I love the way it dissolves into a disembodied voice in a void.

in addition to reading it i've also listened to it on unabridged audio. that was an experience...

here's an earlier version. I'm hoping the "mojave" version gets re-released sometime. Beckett was a satirist but most people don't understand his humor! including me and Beckett! ;-)

Beginning To End - Samuel Beckett
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7zXy57O7bc

I do enjoy Samuel Beckett, here's my take on Three Novels:

https://driftlessareareview.com/2012/10/19/cclap-fridays-on-being-human-the-tril...

And his Rough for Theatre II is brilliant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl5VsAadRwk

His heavenly bureaucrats are mean-spirited pencil-pushers. Reminds me a lot of Terry Gilliam's Brazil

>4 Randy_Hierodule: Hey Phil, I'd be interested in your opinion of the trilogy. I think it might be the great 20th c. masterpiece! Everything else seems trivial by comparison. There's always a little spark of hope left in Beckett, even when reduced to a voice in a void!
"I can't go on, I'll go on."

Apologies for late reply - odd month, computer death, etc. It has been so many years since I read the trilogy (nearly 40), I would really need to reread it to give you a meaningful answer. What I do recall about it, and love in Beckett as a whole - is the sharp (and dark) humor: I can't go on, I must go on, I'll go on. Can't seems absolute - requiring faith, commitment, must seems an insurmountable demand, I'll go on, a shrug and surrender to the obvious. The muddle, the apparent process.

Same in his For Avigdor Arikha:

Siege laid again to the impregnable without. Eye and hand
Fevering after the unself. By the hand it unceasingly
Changes the eye unceasingly changed. Back and forth the
Gaze beating against unseeable and unmakeable. Truce for
A space and the marks of what it is to be and be in face of.
Those deep marks to show.

Or the confused director consulting with the author for direction on a stage note in his play being staged: "the door was imperceptibly ajar."

"Leave it shut".