"Beckett is one of the most positive writers alive. Behind all his
mournful blasphemies against man there is real love. And he is
genuine: every sentence is written as if it had been lived."
--"The New York Times Book Review"
"[Beckett] possesses fierce intellectual honesty, and his prose has
a bare, involuted rhythm that is almost hypnotic."
--"Time"
"Samuel Beckett is sui generis...He has given a voice to the
decrepit and maimed and inarticulate, men and women at the end of
their tether, past pose or pretense, past claim of meaningful
existence. He seems to say that only there and then, as metabolism
lowers, amid God's paucity, not his plenty, can the core of the
human condition be approached...Yet his musical cadences, his
wrought and precise sentences, cannot help but stave off the
void...Like salamanders we survive in his fire."
--Richard Ellmann
"[Beckett] is an incomparable spellbinder...a serious writer with
something serious to say about the human condition."
--"The New York Times"
"More powerful and important than Godot... Mr. Beckett seeks to
empty the novel of its usual recognizable objects -- plot,
situation, characters -- and yet to keep the reader interested and
moved.
Beckett is one of the most positive writers alive. Behind all his
mournful blasphemies against man there is real love. And he is
genuine: every sentence is written as if it had been lived."
-- New York Times Book Review
"[Beckett] possesses fierce intellectual honesty, and his prose has
a bare, involuted rhythm that is almost hypnotic."
-- Time
"Samuel Beckett is sui generis...He has given a voice to the
decrepit and maimed and inarticulate, men and women at the end of
their tether, past pose or pretense, past claim of meaningful
existence. He seems to say that only there and then, as metabolism
lowers, amid God's paucity, not his plenty, can the core of the
human condition be approached...Yet his musical cadences, his
wrought and precise sentences, cannot help but stave off the
void...Like salamanders we survive in his fire."
-- Richard Ellmann
"[Beckett] is an incomparable spellbinder...a serious writer with
something serious to say about the human condition."
-- New York Times
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