Podcast Episodes featuring Samuel Beckett

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Deirdre Bair | Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me

Free Library Podcast - November 22, 2019 09:49 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 106 ratings
Deirdre Bair won the National Book Award for her ''blockbuster biography'' of Samuel Beckett, ''the best introduction to an enigmatic giant of 20th-century literature'' (Christian Science Monitor). Her other acclaimed biographies include portraits of Simone de Beauvoir, Carl Jung, and Al Capone. ...

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ZIZ238 Samuel Beckett’s Art of Abstraction (08.11.2018)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings - October 18, 2019 19:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 148 ratings
hosted by the The Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy at the University of Dundee, Scotland

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Lawrence Shainberg: Staring at the Wall with Samuel Beckett & Norman Mailer

Tricycle Talks - August 21, 2019 18:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 251 ratings
Writer and longtime Zen student Lawrence Shainberg joins Tricycle Editor and Publisher James Shaheen to discuss his new book, "Four Men Shaking: Searching for Sanity with Samuel Beckett, Norman Mailer, and My Perfect Zen Teacher." They talk about Shainberg’s struggles as a practitioner and an aut...

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Samuel Beckett

In Our Time - January 17, 2019 10:15 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 4.7K ratings
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989), who lived in Paris and wrote his plays and novels in French, not because his French was better than his English, but because it was worse. In works such as Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Molloy and Malone Dies, he wanted to show the lim...

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Samuel Beckett

In Our Time: Culture - January 17, 2019 10:15 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 529 ratings
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989), who lived in Paris and wrote his plays and novels in French, not because his French was better than his English, but because it was worse. In works such as Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Molloy and Malone Dies, he wanted to show the lim...