Watt - Samuel Beckett

9	Listal rating

Manufacturer : Grove Press
Release date : 12 January 1994
ISBN-10 : 080215140X | ISBN-13 : 9780802151407

Existentialism (1), Fiction (1)

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In prose possessed of the radically stripped-down beauty and ferocious wit that characterize his work, this early novel by Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett recounts the grotesque and improbable adventures of a fantastically logical Irish servant and his master. Watt is a beautifully executed black comedy that, at its core, is rooted in the po ... (more)

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Samuel Beckett

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Posted : 1 year, 8 months ago at Apr 13 17:25

Good Beckett, though I view this as sort of a warm-up for his classics "Malloy", "Malone Dies" and "The Unnamable". I say that because substantively this is a little less dense that those later works, but, in form, this is a breakthrough. All the unmistakable traits of Beckett's writing are firmly in place here. He writes of the human condition in terms of distance, using declarative sentences repeated through every possible permutation in order to emphasize a total lack of common ground or common assumptions. But then, this is Beckett, so he makes all that seem quite absurd. This book would be horrifying if it wasn't so damn funny.

Rating : 8/10

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