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Reading and Writing Skills for Students of Literature in English: Postwar; Postmodern; Postcolonial Enric Monforte Jacqueline Hurtley Bill Phillips Samuel Beckett Breath (1969) Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) http://www.pencatala.cat Some of Beckett’s plays Eleutheria (first play) (1947) En attendant Godot premiered in Paris (1953) Fin de Partie (1957) Krapp’s Last Tape (1958) Happy Days (1961) Play (1964) Breath (1969) Not I (1973) Some of Beckett’s plays That Time and Footfalls (1976) A Piece of Monologue (1979) Rockaby and Ohio Impromptu (1981) Catastrophe (1982) What Where (1983) Some of Beckett’s prose works More Pricks than Kicks (1934) Murphy (1938) Molloy, Malone meurt, L’innomable (1951) Mercier et Camier (1973) Nobel Prize for Literature (1969) ‘Mix a powerful imagination with a logic in absurdum, and the result will be either a paradox or an Irishman. If it is an Irishman, you will get the paradox into the bargain. Even the Nobel Prize in Literature is sometimes divided. Paradoxically, this has happened in 1969, a single award being addressed to one man, two languages and a third nation, itself divided.’ Presentation speech by Karl Ragnar Gierow, of the Swedish Academy Breath Breath was written in response to Kenneth Tynans request for a piece for his show Oh! Calcutta! at New Yorks Eden Theatre on 16 June 1969. It lasts less than a minute The text was originally published in Gambit, Vol. 4, No. 16 (1970). At the time, it was considered as the culmination of Becketts work Breath The setting for Breath - a Channel 4 production (dir. Damien Hirst, 2000) /learning/main/net notes/programid1681.htm /learning/main/net notes/sectionid100664702.htm The farther he goes the more good it does me. I dont want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement. He is the most courageous, remorseless writer going and the more he grinds my nose in the shit the more I am grateful