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Samuel Beckett - The experience of existential grief

Samuel Beckett – Η εμπειρία της υπαρξιακής οδύνης
  • Publisher: Enastron Publications
  • Edition: 2nd (1st, 1983, Philippotis)
  • Available in: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9786185055431
Link to Enastron PublicationsM.L.P. and Lydia Koniordou discuss Beckett in the First Programm of the National Radio

Today, the journey of my life has brought me here, in the starlight of a long experience rich in transcendent thresholds, I feel grateful to have been a translator and scholar of Samuel Beckett's work. Nothing would have enriched me anymore, nothing would have helped me claim these transcendent thresholds, beds of light and darkness I fought to reach their sources, to be able to verify my own existence in a world where the incomprehensible and the unexplained dominate. The irrational and the unstated. Only the one who has benefited can truly appreciate a project. The one who went through this work vulnerable and bloody to gain knowledge and reach his own truth.

Looking today, after thirty-four years, my book on Samuel Beckett, I feel grateful that I was able to write it. I walked on the towering curve of the abyss that charts his great work, and I was able to find the sources and the deep existential veins of his agony. I didn't want to change anything.The texts that are written while mourning the existence, seeking a small sign from the other truth that leads you to a transcendent redemption, hold within them and beyond words the hidden sanctuary. I 've only added a few, written in later years. He was a genius that shone supernaturally in the cosmic landscape, carving an indelible path, like a falling star. And no one knows what time will reveal. There is already a psychoanalytic approach to his work, in a parallel perspective with that of Freud.

 

Reviews

Samuel Beckett - The experience of existential grief, review by Takis Mendrakos

Preface of the book by Jacques Lacarrière

Ο δοκιμιακός λόγος της μ. λ. π. : Η προσέγγιση του Μπέκετ και του Ελύτη, κριτική μελέτη του ποιητή και καθηγητή Φιλοσοφίας Δημήτρη Ν. Λαμπρέλλη

 

Publications by the writer

Samuel Beckett - The experience of existential grief, Writer's workshop, Written for the reissue of the book

A poem of existence "happy days" by Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett – A prophet of our century

Samuel Beckett, εργαστήρι, “ευλογημένο ό,τι ανοίγει δρόμους υπέρβασης στην ψυχή μας”

  My acquaintance with Samuel Beckett - a genious that shook our century  

The prophetic work of Samuel Beckett at the dawn of the new millennium

Samuel Beckett, 25 years after his death 

Samuel Beckett, “ένα βιβλίο σημαδεμένο από το πένθος και το ακατανόητο της ύπαρξης “

Samuel Beckett, 24 years after his death

 

Preface de Jacques Lagarrierre

Preface de Jacques Lacarrière pour le livre on “Samuel Beckett”

 

Interviews

Samuel Beckett - The experience of existential grief, interview with George Galandis


Series: essay Tagged with: Samuel Beckett, essay, Enastron

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