The End (Penguin Modern) [Paperback] Beckett, Samuel

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Interesting. Becketts prose work is so often a poor second to his plays that roar, like Whitman, through the pines of C20th theatre. The writing is dense, there isn't the stage or the performance to make sense of the wonderful rhythms and careful plotting of the language. the humour is too often difficult to get at.I struggled... until I remembered his wonderful gift for language and for the absurd.I became a mouth reader!Say them out loud, in a harsh whisper, paying careful attention to the punctuation and they come alive! What was bleak become blackly funny. What was repetitious becomes ritual. What was mundane become magical

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3/5 • I’m not an authority on the work of Beckett although I have seen a handful of screen adaptations of his most notable plays and have been fascinated and entertained by them. THE END is the first of his prose works I’ve read. While it has his trademark bleakness and gallows humour it’s a little too morbid for my liking: a barrel of laughs this tiny book ain’t. It is darkly amusing in places but the overall tone is one of death and decay, which is clearly what Beckett intended. That’s fine, in this regard he achieved his aim, but because of this it left me feeling rather dank and miserable. There’s no denying the power of the man’s words but I’m not sure I could take 80,000 of them if they were all like this. However, the small amount offered here is just about bearable and is definitely worth experiencing.