Krapp'S Last Tape - Brossura

Beckett, Samuel

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0571062091 ISBN 13: 9780571062096

Casa editrice: Faber & Faber, 1998

Riassunto

Krapp sits at his desk with a tape recorder in front of him from which emanates a voice, younger, more robust, but still Krapp, relating how life felt when he was thirty-nine, while the old man records his comments. Krapp is making his last tape.In Embers Henry, walking along the seashore, recalls his dead father, while other familiar voices speak to him from the past.

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L'autore:

Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin in 1906. He was educated at Portora Royal School and Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1927. His made his poetry debut in 1930 with Whoroscope and followed it with essays and two novels before World War Two. He wrote one of his most famous plays, Waiting for Godot, in 1949 but it wasn't published in English until 1954. Waiting for Godot brought Beckett international fame and firmly established him as a leading figure in the Theatre of the Absurd. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1961. Beckett continued to write prolifically for radio, TV and the theatre until his death in 1989.

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• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0571062091
• ISBN 13: 9780571062096
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 48