"Waiting for Godot" has been acclaimed as the greatest play of the 20th century. It is also the most elusive: two lifelong friends sing, dance, laugh, weep, and question their fate on a road that descends from and goes nowhere. Throughout, they repeat their intention "Let's go", but this is inevitably followed by the direction "(They do not move.)". This is Beckett's poetic construct of the human condition. Lois Gordon, author of "The World of Samuel Beckett", has written this introduction to Beckett's great work for general readers, students and specialists. Critically and historically informed, it approaches the play scene by scene, exploring the text linguistically, philosophically, critically and biographically. Gordon argues that the play portrays more than the rational mind's search for self and worldly definition. It also dramatises Beckett's insights into human nature, into the emotional life that frequently invades rationality and liberates, victimises, or paralyzes the individual. Gordon shows that Beckett portrays humanity in conflict with mysterious forces both within and outside the self, and that he is an artist of the psychic distress born of relativism.
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...[Gordon] brings a...'modern'...analysis to...[w]hat may...be the most emblematic dramatic work of the 20th century. -- Choice
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"Lois Gordon's new book is a valuable guide to the elasticity of Beckett's best-known play -- its relevance to major developments in nineteenth- and twentieth-century philosophy, psychology, painting, and drama; and its magic appeal to audiences of all ages and nationalities." -Lawrence Graver, author of An Obsession with Anne Frank
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- Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot: A Reference Guide by William Hutchings on page 66, and Back Matter
- Global Fissures: Postcolonial Fusions (Cross/Cultures 85) by Clara A.B. Joseph on page 123, and page 150
- Captive Audience: Prison and Captivity in Contemporary Theatre (Studies in Modern Drama) by Thomas Fahy in Back Matter
- Beckett: Waiting for Godot (Landmarks of World Literature) by Lawrence Graver in Back Matter
- The Popular and the Canonical: Debating Twentieth-Century Literature 1940-2000 (Twentieth-Century Literature: Texts and Debates) by David Johnson on page 261
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