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Title: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett ISBN: 0-8021-3034-8 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: August, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.07 (121 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Interesting...
Comment: I would like to see this play live.... after reading it, I am intrigued to see actors bring it to life. It is a story written on many levels and I think the best way to understand the irony is to see it presented on stage.
I enjoyed the written piece though. It is full of wry humor and irony.
The two main characters are waiting for Godot... an unknown "authority" coming sometime... all throughout the play. They continue to wait and contemplate the meaning of life through banal conversation.
One has to wonder who Godot really is.... and why he is so important to wait for.
Perhaps Godot is the culmination of all life for these two men? A "God"-like figure, looming over us all as we wait on and on until life's ultimate endpoint.
This is strong existential writing. Beckett purports the theory that today is all there is, and the most significant thing is to live in it and exist.
I will probably need to read this one again, it is the type of writing that begs to be examined more than once. If you like comedy in an absurd light... this play is for you.
Rating: 2
Summary: The End Is In The Middle
Comment: Okay, I know that everyone loves Beckett, that he is an artist, more than he is a writer, but that's the problem. He's too absorbed in the formal aesthetic of 'nothing', or 'absurdity', that he doesn't grant readers what they want: Character.
His entire approach (in his prose work) is derived from the last chapter in Joyce's Ulysses, which isn't nearly as remarkable as Faulkner, Gaddis, and Pynchon- who all took from Joyce and expounded, where as Beckett is only imitated.
It's old news: The men waiting for Godot argue about nothing while waiting, and Godot never shows up. It's suppose to be this grand metaphor for God(ot) (Get it?), that there isn't an inherent one, and that the waiting is the only thing which 'creates' him.
I gave up in the middle because I got the joke already, it was so obvious. Beckett had a point to make, and wrote a stoy (play) at us, instead of for us.
If you want to experiment with language, write a poem and get it over with, so you don't waste other reader's time, instead of what Beckett did, which was bury himself in only what he'd like to think only he could understand.
Rating: 5
Summary: The epitome of Existentialist Literature
Comment: An existentialist tragicomedy in two acts. I loved this play-- definitely the epitome of a tragicomedy. I laughed out loud at many of the lines from Vladimir and Estragon, the main characters, as well as Pozzo, a man that happens by as they wait for Godot. The deeper themes of the play got me thinking too.
Who is Godot and why are these two men waiting for him? Good question. It's not important though-- not as important as their waiting to be saved by Godot at least. The way the characters passed away the time of their waiting made the pages fly by for me-- it seemed I had scarcely started when I was at the end!
Highly recommended. Waiting for Godot is a great, quick read.
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Title: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard, Henry Popkin ISBN: 0802132758 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: May, 1991 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Endgame and Act Without Words by Samuel Beckett ISBN: 0802150241 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: July, 1970 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre ISBN: 0679725164 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 23 October, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Maxnotes Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, Rita Wilensky, Curtis Perone, Research & Education Association ISBN: 0878910573 Publisher: Research & Education Assn Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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Title: The Stranger by Albert Camus ISBN: 0679720200 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 13 March, 1989 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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