{"title":"Samuel Beckett","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSamuel Beckett (1906-1989) was een Ierse (toneel)schrijver en dichter. Beckett verwierf wereldfaam met \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWachten op Godot\u003c\/i\u003e. Hij kreeg de Nobelprijs voor Literatuur in 1969. Omdat zijn stukken na 1947 vrijwel alle in het Frans geschreven zijn, wordt hij samen met Eugene Ionesco gezien als de beste Franse toneelschrijver van de twintigste eeuw. Beckett vertaalde zijn stukken zelf in het Engels. Naast \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWachten op Godot\u003c\/i\u003e zijn andere bekende van Bekett \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWatt\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMolloy\u003c\/i\u003e en \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMurphy\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"wachten-op-godot-samuel-beckett","title":"Wachten op Godot - Samuel Beckett","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"slot slot--description slot--seperated  js_slot-description\" data-bltgg=\"rMbl03qaD59PjDjRIO1CCQ.2_10\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-test=\"product-description\" data-bltgi=\"rMbl03qaD59PjDjRIO1CCQ.2_10.11\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-test=\"description\" class=\"product-description\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-bltgg=\"kfNDRpN0F-yqJQ9ceW5MLQ.2_10\" data-group-name=\"ProductDescription\" class=\"slot slot--description slot--seperated  js_slot-description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-bltgi=\"kfNDRpN0F-yqJQ9ceW5MLQ.2_10.11\" data-test=\"product-description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-description\" data-test=\"description\"\u003eTwee zwervers, Vladimir en Estragon, wachten ergens op een landweg naast een boom op iemand, of iets, met de naam Godot. Zo begint het belangrijkste en invloedrijkste toneelstuk van de afgelopen zeventig jaar. Het eind van de jaren veertig van de twintigste eeuw was in het leven van de Iers-Franse schrijver Samuel Beckett een bijzonder vruchtbare periode: niet alleen voltooide hij drie romans die als het hoogtepunt van zijn prozawerk worden beschouwd, hij schreef ook het toneelstuk dat tot op de dag van vandaag wordt opgevoerd: \u003cem\u003eWachten op Godot\u003c\/em\u003e. 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Hij werkte eraan in 1965 en1966, liet het verhaal daarna vier jaar rusten en voltooide het in 1970, toen hij de afsluitende paragraaf toevoegde. De oorspronkelijk in het Frans geschreven \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003enovelle \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eLe dépeupleur\u003c\/em\u003e verscheen dat jaar \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebij Les Éditions de Minuit, en in 1972 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewerd de Engelse, door Beckett zelf vertaalde versie The Lost Ones ge\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003epubliceerd door Calder \u0026amp; Boyars in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLonden en door Grove Press in New York. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDe tekst werd sinds de publicatie ervan tientallen malen geanalyseerd en besproken. Nu eens wordt hij beschouwd als een metafoor van de holocaust en de uitroeiingsmachine van de gaskamers, dan weer als een eigentijdse interpretatie van de grot van Plato; men heeft hem bestempeld \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eals een allegorie van de kunstenaar die geen inspiratie meer vindt, of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eals een parabel van de mens die \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eeeuwig op zoek is naar zingeving, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003edie hem steeds weer ontglipt; anderen hebben de cilinder uit de novelle vergeleken met de toren van Babel, of met een atoomschuilkelder… \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEen voor de hand liggende interpretatie bestaat erin de cilinder te zien als een nieuwe versie van Dantes hel waar woordelijk naar verwezen wordt. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTen slotte sluit \u003cem\u003eDe ontvolker\u003c\/em\u003e aan bij de traditie van dystopische verhalen.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"slot slot--seperated\" data-test=\"reviews-no-reviews\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"rating-v2-summary-header\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Cosimo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42278088409266,"sku":"","price":22.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0602\/5370\/0274\/files\/De_ontvolker_-_Samuel_Beckett_-_Boekhandel_Cosimo-5502131.jpg?v=1731613951"},{"product_id":"happy-days-samuel-beckett","title":"Happy Days - Samuel Beckett","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eHappy Days\u003c\/em\u003e was written in 1960 and first produced in London at the Royal Court Theatre in November 1962. WINNIE: [...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e] Well anyway - this man Shower - or Cooker - no matter - and the woman - hand in hand - in the other hands bags - kind of big brown grips - standing there gaping at me [...] - What's she doing? he says - What's the idea? he says - stuck up to her diddies in the bleeding ground - coarse fellow - What does it mean? he says - What's it meant to mean? - and so on - lot more stuff like that - usual drivel - Do you hear me? He says - I do, she says, God help me - What do you mean, he says, God help you? (stops filing nails, raises head, gazes front.) 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The narrative of Molloy, old and ill, remembering and forgetting, scarcely human, begets a parallel tale of the spinsterish Moran, a private detective sent in search of him, whose own deterioration during the quest joins in with the catalogue of Molloy's woes. Molloy brings a world into existence with finicking certainties, at the tip of whoever is holding the pencil, and trades larger uncertainties with the reader. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThen I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. 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Beckett acknowledged that this comic novel unlike any other 'has its place in the series' - those masterpieces running from \u003cem\u003eMurphy\u003c\/em\u003e to the \u003cem\u003eTrilogy\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWaiting for Godot\u003c\/em\u003e and beyond. It shares their sense of a world in crisis, their profound awareness of the paradoxes of being, and their distrust of the rational universe. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eWatt\u003c\/em\u003e tells the tale of Mr Knott's servant and his attempts to get to know his master. Watt's mistake is to derive the essence of his master from the accidentals of his being, and his painstakingly logical attempts to 'know' ultimately consign him to the asylum. 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