Understanding Samuel Beckett in 90 Minutes with Paul Strathern (2005) [аудиокнига, выжимка из Knowlson. Распознать. Возможно ошибка про whoroscope]
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0:00అంశము 1: In 1946 Beckett found himself back in Ireland, staying with his disapproving mother. 131s · Speaker 1
In 1946 Beckett found himself back in Ireland, staying with his disapproving mother. He had left Paris because he did not have enough money to continue living in his chosen city. He was now approaching forty, and forced to confront the pros…
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the assumption I had been going on all my life, namely, clear to me at last that the dark I have been fighting off all this time is in reality my most unshatterable association till my dying day of story and night with a light of understand…
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Beckett's Life and Works Samuel Beckett was born on Good Friday, April 13, 1906, in Fox Rock, a middle-class suburb between the Wicklow Mountains and the Irish Sea south of Dublin. His family was descended from Huguenots, the Protestants wh…
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hero Descartes, he found it difficult to rise from his bed before noon. This made him particularly unsuited to the employment he now gained as a schoolmaster at Campbell College, Belfast, a middle-class Ulster institution similar to Portora…
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Although he duly carried out his light tutorial duties at the École, he appears to have mixed little with the students, among whom he might have encountered Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, who are currently the top philosophy stude…
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11:19అంశము 6: Come in. This amused Joyce so much that he decided to leave Beckett's copy intact. 300s · Speaker 1
Come in. This amused Joyce so much that he decided to leave Beckett's copy intact. Such accidents fell easily into the prose of Finnegan's Wake. Not a sound falling. Lisbon. No wind, no word. Only a leaf, just a leaf and the leaves. The woo…
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Tragedy is the statement of an expiation, but not the miserable expiation of a codified breach of a local arrangement organized by the knaves for the fools. The tragic figure represents the expiation of original sin, of the original and ete…
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21:23అంశము 8: Belacqua, the hero of his abandoned novel. 216s · Speaker 1
Belacqua, the hero of his abandoned novel. My sometime friend Belacqua enlivened the last phase of his solipsism before he towed the line and began to relish the world with the belief that the best thing he had to do was to move constantly …
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25:00అంశము 9: not itself contain. 299s · Speaker 2
not itself contain. Nothing ever had been, was, or would be in the universe outside it, but was already present as virtual or actual, or virtual rising into actual, or actual falling into virtual in the universe inside it. Despite his solip…
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30:00అంశము 10: names as much as she collected paintings, and the elusive misanthropic Beckett proved incompatible, and they went their separate ways. 298s · Speaker 1
names as much as she collected paintings, and the elusive misanthropic Beckett proved incompatible, and they went their separate ways. Decades later, in her autobiography Confessions of an Art Addict, Peggy Guggenheim would claim that among…
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34:58అంశము 11: Boy Scout stuff. 301s · Speaker 2
Boy Scout stuff. But there is no doubting the fact that this involved real danger. After the war, Beckett would be awarded the Croix de Guerre for his efforts, though he typically omitted to tell anyone of this for many years. In 1942, the …
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40:00అంశము 12: obsessive, and oblique examination of the nature of existence, but there is no doubting its philosophical penetration. 255s · Speaker 1
obsessive, and oblique examination of the nature of existence, but there is no doubting its philosophical penetration. Such passages do not make for easy reading, and indeed there are times when it is almost impossible to continue without o…
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44:15అంశము 13: restrictions. 305s · Speaker 2
restrictions. After desperate inquiries, he managed to find a position as an interpreter for the Irish Red Cross, which was sending a mission to set up a hospital at Saint-Lô in Normandy. Beckett arrived to find that the town had been reduc…
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49:22అంశము 14: certainly a vehicle of some kind. 304s · Speaker 2
certainly a vehicle of some kind. I was helped. I'd never have got there alone. There's this man who comes every week. Perhaps I got here thanks to him. He says not. Beckett had found his tone of voice and his situation. A bereft character,…
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I will not weigh upon the balance any more, one way or the other. I shall be neutral and inert. No difficulty there. Throws are the only trouble. I must be on guard against throws. But I am less given to them now since coming here. Of cours…
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58:12అంశము 16: even in this reduced state, to be philosophy. 304s · Speaker 2
even in this reduced state, to be philosophy. Yet Beckett is telling us that this is the state to which all of philosophy, all literature can be reduced. This is the earth out of which these separate specializations have flowered. From such…
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1:03:16అంశము 17: in any sense, except ultimate silence. 304s · Speaker 1
in any sense, except ultimate silence. It will be I. It will be the silence. Where I am. I don't know. I'll never know. In the silence you don't know. You must go on. I can't go on. I'll go on. Surprising though it may seem, Beckett's preci…
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To put the obvious question in its most blatant form, is Godot God? Are the two main characters, Vladimir and Estragon, waiting for some kind of divine revelation? Beckett always strongly denied that Godot was God, one of the few points on …
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1:10:06అంశము 19: Estragon. 304s · Speaker 3
Estragon. Wild gestures, incoherent words. Finally, Why will you never let me sleep? Vladimir. I felt lonely. Estragon. I was dreaming I was happy. Vladimir. That passed the time. Estragon. I was dreaming that— Vladimir. Violently. Don't te…
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1:15:11అంశము 20: knock-about personal relationship, as with Vladimir and Estragon, we now have an inflexible power relationship. 299s · Speaker 1
knock-about personal relationship, as with Vladimir and Estragon, we now have an inflexible power relationship. As Pozzo prepares to leave, Estragon asks him, Where do you go from here? Pozzo replies simply, On. Such purposeless endurance i…
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1:20:11అంశము 21: "'There is nothing more grotesque than tragedy,' he explained cryptically. 287s · Speaker 1
"'There is nothing more grotesque than tragedy,' he explained cryptically. His plays were not intended to be naturalistic, more ritualistic. The parts required an interpretation that was stylized rather than psychological. Yet, despite his …
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1:24:59అంశము 22: Here's a ten-year-old. 300s · Speaker 2
Here's a ten-year-old. by his servant, the recalcitrant Clove. Also present are Ham's mother and father, Nag and Nell, who inhabit dustbins, having apparently lost their legs many years previously in a bicycle accident. The characters' role…
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His ancient recording machine, meditatively munching on his bananas, occasionally disappearing into the darkness for a swig of hooch, is one of the most moving figures of the modern stage, despite his brief stage life, which remains in the …
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1:35:00అంశము 24: wide royalties earned by his works. 296s · Speaker 1
wide royalties earned by his works. Typically they travelled in secret to England, where they were married without fuss or friends, in the anonymous coastal town of Folkestone. Beckett's only indication of where he was, or what he was doing…
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1:39:57అంశము 25: Scream. Screams. 301s · Speaker 2
Scream. Screams. Then listen. Silence. Scream again. Screams again. Then listen again. Silence. No. Spared that. The effect is both horrific and tragic, and appears to express the being of humanity on a deeply fundamental level. It is primi…
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1:45:00అంశము 26: Outside was a bleak garden, with a single Godot-like tree. 299s · Speaker 1
Outside was a bleak garden, with a single Godot-like tree. Friends who called were shocked at Beckett's impoverished quarters, but he refused to spend his considerable fortune on anything better. He had all that he needed. In July 1989, Suz…
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1:50:00అంశము 27: Bruno Vico Joyce 1930. 297s · Speaker 1
Bruno Vico Joyce 1930. Beckett's poem Horoscope wins Cunard Prize in Paris. 1930-1932. Becomes lecturer in French at Trinity College Dublin. Resigns after four terms. 1931. Publishes Proust in London. 1932. Beginning of Beckett's five years…
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1:54:58అంశము 28: Thank you. · Speaker 2
Thank you.