Company is the most recent prose work by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Waiting for Godot, Endgame, and other great works of the post-World War II era. In Company, a man lying on his back in the darkness of an enclosed room hears a voice speaking to him or to some other being. The voice reminisces about significant moments in some person's life: a young child being scolded by his mother for asking about the distance of the sky, a child being born while his father takes a walk to avoid the horrors of childbirth, a man wondering whether his lover is pregnant, a child being born the day Christ died. The relentless voice finally tells the man that words are ending, that the idea of one with you in the dark is only a fable. In the final moment, we find the man alone, ready for the metaphoric cycle to begin anew. Beckett has reduced the story line of Company to the sparest of prose which, in its distilled form, accentuates what Alvarado Alvarez calls his unfailing stylistic control and economy of language, his remorseless stripping away of superfluities. In Company we find the familiar themes from Beckett's earlier work, here reshaped and transfigured, in what is probably the most remarkable literary exploration of our day.
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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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"Company" is a Worthwhile, Haunting Tale,
By 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.
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