The End: Samuel Beckett (Penguin Modern)

Interesting. Becketts prose work is so often a poor second to his plays that roar, like Whitman, through the pines of C20th theatre. The writing is dense, there isn't the stage or the performance to make sense of the wonderful rhythms and careful plotting of the language. the humour is too often difficult to get at. I struggled... until I remembered his wonderful gift for language and for the absurd. I became a mouth reader! Say them out loud, in a harsh whisper, paying careful attention to the punctuation and they come alive! What was bleak become blackly funny. What was repetitious becomes ritual. What was mundane become magical

bleak

Good read

This was okay, but it was also kind of forgettable. I think part of that is my fault though, because I wasn’t really in the right headspace to read it. Still, I thought this was fine, just not “fun“.

Good stuff

I'd never read Samuel Beckett and was disappointed with this introduction to him.

3/5 • I’m not an authority on the work of Beckett although I have seen a handful of screen adaptations of his most notable plays and have been fascinated and entertained by them. THE END is the first of his prose works I’ve read. While it has his trademark bleakness and gallows humour it’s a little too morbid for my liking: a barrel of laughs this tiny book ain’t. It is darkly amusing in places but the overall tone is one of death and decay, which is clearly what Beckett intended. That’s fine, in this regard he achieved his aim, but because of this it left me feeling rather dank and miserable. There’s no denying the power of the man’s words but I’m not sure I could take 80,000 of them if they were all like this. However, the small amount offered here is just about bearable and is definitely worth experiencing.

Mabye I'm just not sharp enough to enjoy Beckett but I found alot of this rather difficult to follow. 'The End' (or its first half at least) was quite good but it all fell apart in a confusing mess for me by the time I reached the second story.

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