The Poems, Short Fiction, and Criticism of Samuel Beckett: Volume IV of The Grove Centenary Editions

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Edited by Paul Auster this fourvolume hardcover set of Becketts canon has been designed by award-winner Laura Lindgren. Available individually as well as in a boxed set these books are specially bound with covers featuring images central to Becketts works. Typographical errors that remained uncorrected in the various prior editions have now been corrected in consultation with Beckett scholars C. J. Ackerley and S. E. Gontarski. "Beckett settled on philosophical comedy as the medium for his uniquely anguished arrogant self-doubting scrupulous temperament. In the popular mind his name is associated with the mysterious Godot who may or may not come but for whom we wait anyhow. In this he seemed to define the mood of an age. But his range is wider than that and his achievement far greater. Beckett was an artist possessed by a vision of life without consolation or dignity or promise of grace in the face of which our only duty is not to lie to ourselves. It was a vision to which he gave expression in language of a virile strength and intellectual subtlety that marks him as one of the great prose stylists of the twentieth century." J. M. Coetzee from his Introduction