Libera / Pyda Dialogues on Beckett

Whatever Happened to God?
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-78308-896-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 1, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Anthem Studies in Theatre and Performance

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Libera, Antoni

Pyda, Janusz

Weitere Mitwirkende

Kolakowska, Agnieszka

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Authors’ Note, Samuel Beckett – The Last Literary Giant; Dialogue I: Messianism: Pros and Cons, ‘Waiting for Godot’ (1949); Dialogue II: The Tyranny of the Emancipated Mind, ‘Endgame’ (1956); Dialogue III: The Fiasco of Self-Creation, ‘Krapp’s Last Tape’ (1958); Dialogue IV: Incorrigible Optimism, ‘Happy Days’ (1961); Dialogue V: The Comic Side of Pessimism, ‘Rough for Theatre II’ (Late 1950s); Dialogue VI: Life as Purgatory, ‘Play’ (1962); Dialogue VII: Darkness and Forms of Speech, ‘Not I’ (1972); Dialogue VIII: Inventing Oneself, ‘That Time’ (1974); Dialogue IX: Life without a Father, ‘Footfalls’ (1975); Dialogue X: Creatures of the Night, ‘… But the Clouds …’ (1976); Dialogue XI: The Abyss of the Unconscious, ‘Ohio Impromptu’ (1981); Dialogue XII: Catastrophe with No Tragedy, ‘Catastrophe’ (1982).

Über Autor(innen)

Antoni Libera is a writer, translator and stage director. Among his translations into Polish are all of Samuel Beckett’s plays and much of his prose. He has also directed many of Beckett’s plays, both in Poland and abroad, and has presented them at various international theatre festivals. Janusz Pyda OP is a Dominican friar and lecturer in philosophy and theology at the Polish Dominican College of Philosophy and Theology.