First Love and Other Novellas
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This new collection brings together First Love, The Calamative, The End and The Expelled; these four novellas are among the first major works of Beckett's decision to use French as his language of literary composition. Rich in verbal and situational humour, they offer a fascinating insight into many of the issues which preoccupied Beckett all his working life. As the first novella reveals, nobody writes with quite such cruel and unnervingly clever wit as Beckett... Review: Inauthentic - Book does not look like a real copy. The gaps in the front cover shouldn't be asymmetric. Review: purchased out of passion and to own it with pride. - Usually books are purchased out of passion and to own it with pride. Asking for a rating for a book like other white goods, electronics or kitchen products is embarrassing. The most that can be said is the product was neatly packed and arrived early.
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V**S
Inauthentic
Book does not look like a real copy. The gaps in the front cover shouldn't be asymmetric.
S**K
purchased out of passion and to own it with pride.
Usually books are purchased out of passion and to own it with pride. Asking for a rating for a book like other white goods, electronics or kitchen products is embarrassing. The most that can be said is the product was neatly packed and arrived early.
N**N
Five Stars
Buy this!
M**T
Five Stars
Just perfect :)
S**Y
Brilliantly crafted but covering over-familiar ground
I tread warily in submitting this review as there are clearly plenty of Samuel Beckett aficionados out there who love these novellas. My comments are directed more at those whose only previous knowledge of the author comes perhaps from seeing a production of Waiting for Godot and, like me, finding the play rather hard to enjoy. There's little doubt the four short stories presented in this very slim volume are painstakingly crafted and read beautifully considering they were all originally written in French. The streams of first person consciousness the author employs were no doubt ground-breaking in 1946 when they were first produced. But the subject matter sticks relentlessly to a same single subject: the confused musings of rather pitiable vagrants whose progressive decline and ultimate demise is seemingly inevitable. I was hoping to find out what Beckett had to say on other topics and was left a bit disappointed.
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