Samuel Beckett
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Introduction: Fuck Life
1 Arriving at an End: Ireland, 1906-28
2 Not Worth Tuppence: Paris and the École Normale Supérieure, 1928-30
3 The Ruthless Cunning of the Sane: London, 1933-5
4 Melancholia im dritten Reich: Germany, 1936-7
5 Élimination des déchets: The War, Resistance, Vichy France, 1939-44
6 Indignités: Liberation, the Purge, de Gualle, 1944-9
7 Make Sense Who May: A World at Cold War, 1950-85
8 Where He Happened to Be: Capital Triumphans, 1985-9
Afterword: To Begin Yet Again
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Acknowledgements
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“[The book] undoubtedly sheds light on the historical circumstances that informed [Beckett’s] texts, and there are many interesting details that allow us to see his literary achievement more clearly.”
“This new biography . . . considers the writer’s work in relation to the historical circumstances of his life and provides an original insight into one of Ireland’s greatest writers.”
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