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They "cordially detested each other." So says Deirdre Bair of Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir. And Bair should know. She spent years working on their biographies — Beckett's in the 1970s, ...

And You shall then recite as follows before your God: “Arami oved avi, My father was a fugitive Aramean.” In “Go on, go on, go on: Samuel Beckett’s three influential novels from the 1950s, reissued,” ...

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“On the Calculation of Volume,” an ongoing seven-part novel by the Danish writer Solvej Balle, is the story of a single day in the life of its protagonist, the antiquarian book dealer Tara Selter, ...

In 1932 Samuel Beckett finished his first novel, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, which went on to be rejected by every publisher he sent it to and would remain unpublished until 1992, three years ...

A meticulously researched history argues that Godot’s dominance has overshadowed Beckett’s wider theatrical legacy ...