Beckett's first 'literary landmark' (_St Petersburg Times_) is a wonderfully savoury introduction to the Nobel Prize-winning author. Written in 1932, when the twenty-six-year-old Beckett was struggling to make ends meet, the novel offers a rare and revealing portrait of the artist as a young man. When submitted to several publishers, all of them found it too literary, too scandalous or too risky; it was only published posthumously in 1992. As the story begins, Belacqua - a young version of Molloy, whose love is divided between two women, Smeraldina-Rima and the little Alba - 'wrestles with his lusts and learning across vocabularies and continents, before a final "relapse into Dublin"' (_New Yorker_). Youthfully exuberant and Joycean in tone, _Dream _is a work of extraordinary virtuosity.
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ISBN
9780571358069
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Vendor
Faber & Faber
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
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Digital bok

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