/lit/ - Literature

How did great authors cope with ending a relationship ? I know that formulated like this, the question seems very vague but maybe you could share some anecdotes and etc. to help me overcome this pain. (accidentaly posted this under another thread, apologies)

How does /lit/ feel about Beckett. I know he's better known for his plays, but I've recently read some of his novels and found them very interesting in style and content.

Hey /lit/

I loved Molloy, but started Malone Dies and was bored by it, so I gave up after 20 pages or so. This was a few months ago already.

I'm now getting the urge to try more Beckett. Would you advise against going into The Unnamable without having read Malone Dies, or will it not matter?

>inb4 just read Malone Dies, it's so short
I'm quite a slow reader so the feeling of wasting time bothers me too much for that.

Nothing to be done.

que ferais-je sans ce monde sans visage
sans questions
où être ne dure qu'un instant où chaque instant
verse dans le vide dans l'oubli d'avoir été
sans cette onde où à la fin
corps et ombre ensemble s'engloutissent
que ferais-je sans ce silence gouffre des murmures
haletant furieux vers le secours vers l'amour
sans ce ciel qui s'élève
sur la poussière de ses lests
que ferais-je je ferais comme hier comme aujourd'hui
regardant par mon hublot si je ne suis pas seul
à errer et à virer loin de toute vie
dans un espace pantin
sans voix parmi les voix
enfermées avec moi

>>2230751

Au Contraire...

>>1613468
I'm more a chess sorta guy, if I've got to play a board game.

>we will never play chess together
sad frog

How did Beckett come to be Joyce's apprentice? I wish I could just write my dear Tommy Pynchon a letter and get him to teach me everything he knows. Is it still possible? Obviously Pynchon is a bad example...but you know what I mean. You don't often hear about writers apprenticing other writers these days...

is beckett better in french or english? did he write everything in french first, then translate into english? lolwut

also, general beckett thread

>>655514
au contraire