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Dream of Fair to Middling Women

By Samuel Beckett

Dream of Fair to Middling Women Contemporary literature

Dream of Fair to Middling Women

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Beckett's first 'literary landmark' (St Petersburg Times) is a wonderfully savoury introduction to the Nobel Prize-winning author. Written in 1932, when the twenty-six-year-old Beckett was struggling to make ends meet, the novel offers a rare and revealing portrait of the artist as a young man. When submitted to several publishers, all of them found it too literary, too scandalous or too risky; it was only published posthumously in 1992. As the story begins, Belacqua - a young version of Molloy, whose love is divided between two women, Smeraldina-Rima and the little Alba - 'wrestles with his lusts and learning across vocabularies and continents, before a final "relapse into Dublin"' (New Yorker). Youthfully exuberant and Joycean in tone, Dream is a work of extraordinary virtuosity.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
272
Release Date:
2020-04-02
Publication Date:
2020-04-02
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0571358055
ISBN13:
9780571358052
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
426 g
Height:
342 cm
Width:
146 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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