Monday 11 March 2013

The books I have just finished reading ...





I have just finished reading "Beckett Remembering Remembering Beckett"  by James and Elizabeth Knowlson and soon after a very tiny hard-cover book by Paul Auster - Auggie Wren's Christmas story.









The authors James and Elizabeth Knowlson are said to  have assembled the edited recollections and essays  written by those who knew or worked with Beckett throughout his life time "to depict the evolution of Becket as a personality, to look at him from the point of view of people who had very different relations with him".


I found these to be valuable testimonies which provided me with a deeper insight of who Beckett was or may have been beyond his written heritage.


I was particularly drawn to the opinions provided by his students, whilst he was a lecturer at Trinity Colege in Dublin, mainly because of being a teacher myself and then his rigorous adherence to the rhythm he had laid down in his theatrical texts in an attempt to make the actors envision what he was envisioning those plays to be visually.


Worth being read by both Samuel Beckett's enthusiasts  and those who are not.













"Auggie Wren's Christmas story" by Paul Auster is a very interesting "giving-related" story, which has been majestically illustrated by the acclaimed young Argentinian illustrator Marisol Misenta (Isol).


A perfect gift for Christmas, particularly for those who know what giving is, but even more for those who don't.











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