Company (Calderbooks S.) [Paperback]

Samuel Beckett (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Riverrun Pr (December 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0714538574
• ISBN-13: 978-0714538570
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 4.7 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #642,411 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin in 1906. He was educated at Portora Royal School and Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1927. His made his poetry debut in 1930 with Whoroscope and followed it with essays and two novels before World War Two. He wrote one of his most famous plays, Waiting for Godot, in 1949 but it wasn't published in English until 1954. Waiting for Godot brought Beckett international fame and firmly established him as a leading figure in the Theatre of the Absurd. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. Beckett continued to write prolifically for radio, TV and the theatre until his death in 1989.

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5.0 out of 5 stars "Company" is a Worthwhile, Haunting Tale, November 15, 2000

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Aaron Goldhamer (Denver, CO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Company (Hardcover)

"Company" is a haunting tale of one man about whom nothing is known, who spends his final hours alone in a pitch black room. His sanity is questionable at best in this sensory-deprived state, and he tells himself stories and even makes up imaginary friends with whom he converses to pass the time (this is the titular company he seeks). Beautifully written, this piece flows like a prose poem and is as easy a read as one will find in Beckett's works. Bringing up important questions of rationality and the concept of the self, "Company" is not to be missed.