The testament of Samuel Beckett – Usado

A poet -Josephine Jacobsen- and a professor of English -William R. Mueller- introduce and examine in nonacademic, nontechnical language the fascinating world of Samuel Beckett. They discuss his hilarious, tragic, vivid plays and novels -Waiting for Goto, Endgame, Krapp’s Last Tape, Malone Dies, Watt, and may others.

The authors explain the focus of this book in the preface:

“We are interested in Beckett’s craftsmanship as it serves as a vehicle for his visions, what we have called his ‘testament’. The first section of this book seeks to make clear Beckett’s techniques -his poetic mode, his epistemological sense… his comic approach to mankind. Beckett draws upon his poetic skill, his comic inventiveness to present his vision, an it is to this reflection of the human condition that we turn in the second section of our book”