Dream of Fair to Middling Women
€31.25
Product Information
| ISBN | 9780571358052 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Samuel Beckett |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Format | Hardcover |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.422 |
| Publishing Date | 02/04/2020 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €29.48 |
| Tax | €1.77 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €31.25 |
| Availability | 2 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
Beckett’s first ‘literary landmark’ (St Petersburg Times) is a wonderfully savoury introduction to the Nobel Prize-winning author. Written in 1932, when the twenty-six-year-old Beckett was struggling to make ends meet, the novel offers a rare and revealing portrait of the artist as a young man. When submitted to several publishers, all of them found it too literary, too scandalous or too risky; it was only published posthumously in 1992. As the story begins, Belacqua – a young version of Molloy, whose love is divided between two women, Smeraldina-Rima and the little Alba – ‘wrestles with his lusts and learning across vocabularies and continents, before a final “relapse into Dublin”’ (New Yorker). Youthfully exuberant and Joycean in tone, Dream is a work of extraordinary virtuosity.