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Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
Samuel Beckett
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Description for Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
hardcover. A play that is presented in two languages. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 324. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear. Dust wrapper has some minor edge wear but remains very good
Written in French and first performed at the Théâtre de Babylone in Paris, in 1953, En attendant Godot was subsequently translated by Samuel Beckett into English as Waiting for Godot. It was performed at the Arts Theatre in London in 1955, and was first published by Faber & Faber in 1956. To mark the centenary of Beckett's birth and the fiftieth anniversary of its original publication, Faber is now publishing for the first time a bilingual edition of this great masterpiece. Subtitled 'a tragicomedy in two acts', and once famously described by the Irish critic Vivian Mercier as a play in which 'nothing happens, twice', Waiting for Godot is also uniquely a play that was written twice. Here, for the first time, the reader can watch it unfold simultaneously in two languages.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571229109
SKU
KKD0003512
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-2
About Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin in 1906 and graduated from Trinity College. He settled in Paris in 1937, after travels in Germany and periods of residence in London and Dublin. He remained in France during the Second World War and was active in the French Resistance. From the spring of 1946 his plays, novels, short fiction, poetry and criticism were largely written in French. With the production of En attendant Godot in Paris in 1953, Beckett's work began to achieve widespread recognition. During his subsequent career as a playwright and novelist in both French and English he redefined the possibilities of prose fiction and writing for the theatre. Samuel Beckett won the Prix Formentor in 1961 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969. He died in Paris in December 1989.
Reviews for Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
"'Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it is terrible.' - Jean Anouilh on the first production at the Theatre Babylone in 1953"