Journal Of Beckett Studies

John Pilling (ed.)

John Calder

<p>This is a handbook for voice teachers &amp; for professional &amp; amateur singers. The book provides a wealth of information with musical examples &amp; photos. Chapters include: 1. Teacher &amp; student 2. Work of the teacher preparatory 3. Building the instrument 4. Teaching skill &amp; its use 5. Correcting faults 6. Warning against dangers 7. Classifying &amp; sometimes retraining 8. Musical education 9. Musical &amp; dramatic expression 10. Professional questions 11. The microphone &amp; head resonance</p>

Art of Singing and Voice Technique

Viktor Fuchs

<p>Samuel Beckett's celebrated early study of Marcel proust, whose theories of time were to play a large part in his own work, was written in 1931. It is a brilliant work of critical insight that also tells us much about its author's own thinking and preoccupations. In its own right it is a masterpiece of literary and philosophical creative writing. This edition was published in 1999 - ten years after the writer's death. The volume also contains the equally celebrated dialogues with the art critic Georges Duthuit - written to record their different points of view after the discussions took place. Beckett always let Duthuit win, but his very unusual and often opposite point of view on the nature and purpose of art is all the more forceful and memorable on that account.</p>

Proust and Three Dialogues

Literature & Fiction

BECKETT,SAMUEL

British & Irish

Murphy, Samuel Beckett’s first published novel, is set in London and Dublin, during the first decades of the Irish Republic. The title character loves Celia in a striking case of love requited” but must first establish himself in London before his intended bride will make the journey from Ireland to join him. Beckett comically describes the various schemes that Murphy employs to stretch his meager resources and the pastimes that he uses to fill the hours of his days. Eventually Murphy lands a job as a nurse at Magdalen Mental Mercyseat hospital, where he is drawn into the mad world of the patients which ends in a fateful game of chess. While grounded in the comedy and absurdity of much of daily life, Beckett’s work is also an early exploration of themes that recur throughout his entire body of work including sanity and insanity and the very meaning of life.

Murphy

Literary

Arnold Schoenberg

Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt

Molloy was written by Samuel Beckett initially in French, only later translating it into English. It was published shortly after World War II and marked a new, mature writing style which was to dominate the remainder of his working life. Molloy is divided into two sections. In the first section, Molloy goes in search of his mother. In the second, he is pursued by Moran, an agent. Within this simple outline, spoken in the first person, is a remarkable novel, raising questions of being and aloneness that marks so much of Beckett's work, but richly comic as well. Beautifully written, it is one of the masterpieces of Irish literature. This is the world premiere recording. Written by a master dramatist, it is ideally suited to the audiobook medium.

Molloy

LGBTQ+ Books

Samuel Beckett

The Naked Lunch

BURROUGHS, WILLIAM

Classics

The Price of Genius: A Life of Pauline Viardot

Biographies & Memoirs

FitzLyon, April

Arts & Literature

Tropic of Capricorn

MILLER, HENRY

Contemporary

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