In this, his second book about the essence and depth of Samuel Beckett's thinking and literary art, John Calder analyses the dualism of Beckett's theological writing, his debt to the Gnostics, Manicha
We are surrounded by concrete...The raw concrete buildings of the 1960s constituted the greatest flowering of architecture the world has ever seen. The biggest construction boom in history promoted un
Increasingly Samuel Beckett's writing is seen as the culmination of the great literature of the twentieth century – succeeding the work of Proust, Joyce and Kafka. Beckett is a writer whose relevance
Lets readers vent their emotions in a unique way, be those feelings happy, sad, lovestruck or frustrated. Each page of this book tells a different story, whether the lengthy process of trying to work
The former editor-in-chief of the National Enquirer presents a candid account of his twenty-year career with America's most notorious tabloid, offering behind-the-scenes glimpses of the stories behind
A poignant memoir of the Paris literary scene in the 1950s and 1960s by one of its protagonists Some of last century's leading cultural figures are brought to life here, people who shaped our modern t