Yell. Sam, if you still can
Besserie, Maylis2022
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This novel by Maylis Besserie, the first of her Irish trilogy, shows us Samuel Beckett at the end of his life in 1989, living in Le Tiers-Temps retirement home. It is as if Beckett has come to live in one of his own stage productions, peopled with strange, unhinged individuals, waiting for the end of days. 'Days of Old' is filled with voices. From diary notes to clinical reports to daily menus, cool medical voices provide a counterpoint to Beckett himself, who reflects on his increasingly fragile existence. He remains playful, rueful, and aware of the dramatic irony that has brought him to live in the room next door to Winnie, surrounded by grotesques like Hamm or Lucky, abandoned by his wife Suzanne who died before him.
Main title:
Yell. Sam, if you still can / Maylis Besserie ; translated by Clíona Ní Ríordáin.
Author:
Besserie, Maylis, authorRíordáin, Clíona Ní, translator
Imprint:
Dublin : The Lilliput Press, 2022.
Collation:
192 pages ; 22 cm
Notes:
Translated from the French.
ISBN:
9781843518341 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
843.92
Language:
EnglishFrench
BRN:
2532237
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