Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett  -  James Knowlson

the life of Samuel Beckett

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Damned to Fame follows the reclusive literary giant's life from his birth in Foxrock, a rural suburb of Dublin, in 1906 to his death in Paris in 1989. Knowlson brilliantly re-creates Beckett's early years as a struggling author in Paris, his travels through Germany in 1936-37 as the Nazis were consolidating their power, his service in the French Resistance during World War II, and the years of literary fame and financial success that followed the first performance of his controversial Waiting for Godot (195...
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1996 Uitgever: Simon & Schuster 800 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0684808722 ISBN-13: 9780684808727