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Beckett's first literary landmark' (St Petersburg Times) is a wonderfully savoury introduction to the Nobel Prize-winning author. Written in 1932, when the twenty-six-year-old Beckett was struggling to make ends meet, the novel offers a rare and revealing portrait of the artist as a young man. When submitted to several publishers, all of them found it too literary, too scandalous or too risky; it was only published posthumously in 1992. As the story begins, Belacqua a young version of Molloy, whose love is divided between two women, Smeraldina-Rima and the little Alba wrestles with his lusts and learning across vocabularies and continents, before a final relapse into Dublin' (New Yorker). Youthfully exuberant and Joycean in tone, Dream is a work of extraordinary virtuosity.

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      Publisher: Faber & Faber
      Publication Date: 02/04/2020
      ISBN13: 9780571358052, 978-0571358052
      ISBN10: 0571358055
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      ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: poetry and poets Books by Samuel Beckett

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Beckett's first literary landmark' (St Petersburg Times) is a wonderfully savoury introduction to the Nobel Prize-winning author. Written in 1932, when the twenty-six-year-old Beckett was struggling to make ends meet, the novel offers a rare and revealing portrait of the artist as a young man. When submitted to several publishers, all of them found it too literary, too scandalous or too risky; it was only published posthumously in 1992. As the story begins, Belacqua a young version of Molloy, whose love is divided between two women, Smeraldina-Rima and the little Alba wrestles with his lusts and learning across vocabularies and continents, before a final relapse into Dublin' (New Yorker). Youthfully exuberant and Joycean in tone, Dream is a work of extraordinary virtuosity.

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