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Where to start with Samuel Beckett?

>> No.15618258

Trilogy

>> No.15618262

>>15618247
Waiting For Godot, Murphy, then the Trilogy

>> No.15618308

>>15618247
Waiting for godot, no doubt about it, you can breeze through it in a few hours and its his most well known work, no good reason not to read it

>> No.15618314

>>15618247
Watch this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZDRfnICq9M
Then stop

>> No.15618574

>>15618247
Collected Short Prose so you can flex on the normies who read Waiting for Godot in highschool

>> No.15618592

>>15618574

Now we're talking

>> No.15619012

>>15618247
remove his shirt, suck a nipple, then work your way down.

>> No.15619019

Murphy is the least shit

>> No.15620332

>>15618247

don't listen to these plebs

read the trilogy
read how it is

you've read peak beckett -- nothing...and i mean NOTHING... from the 20th century compares

>> No.15620376

Beckett is best read chronologically. Start with his essays "Dante...Bruno. Vico...Joyce" and "Proust," then go on to More Pricks Than Kicks and Echo's Bones (which are both failures, but key to priming yourself for Beckett), then read his novels, then read his plays.

>> No.15620942

>>15620332
What do you think of text for nothing

>> No.15621103

Here's how I got into Beckett.

Listened to this awesome stage reading of Murphy: http://www.ubu.com/sound/beckett_murphy.html

Then, because I didn't understand even half of the stage reading, go back and read the actual text.

Then read the trilogy.

Then read Waiting for Godot and Endgame. And then, if you're still enthused, branch out into his experimental fiction and poetry.

>> No.15621272

Watt

>> No.15622559

>>15620942

it actually has a lot of his best gems. you ought to read nohow on if you like texts for nothing.

personally, i think mid-stage beckett was best beckett. the prose isn't as controlled but what he loses in condensed mastery is gained by humor...

if you had to do just one stick to the trilogy + how it is, if you like the former, but honestly you can't really go wrong with beckett

>> No.15623375

>no mention of krapp's last tape

do you guys even into beckett?