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 ...
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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.
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Beckett's first book written at age 26 in one month ! A youthful experiment in "non sequitur" prose employing French, German and Latin phrases, much of it undecipherable for meaningful content ! The "saving grace" of the book however is the brilliance of the young authors musings: on music, women, religion, and more decidedly upon the meaning of the human experience. As one of his lovers quotes: "We go through lthe world ---like sunbeams through the cracks ! " The strong flavor of existentialism penetrates his prose. Mercifully it is altered with a "Beckettian" sprinkle of optimism: yielding a rewarding read !
