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» 38 more 1950s (25) Metafiction (12) Favourite Books (353) Irish writers (7) Folio Society (279) Plays I Like (7) Translingualism (1) Existentialism (5) Okuduklarım (1) Modernism (59) 100 World Classics (22) Nifty Fifties (82) Unread books (917) No current Talk conversations about this book. Decent. I found that this absurdist play was difficult to get into because of it's genre. I guess you have to be careful to not read too into it the first time you encounter it, but I was certainly reading between the lines because I really couldn't help it. I found the relationship the two 'bums' shared to be homoerotic and their relationship to Godot as one to a leader, not a god. A lawyer or a lawmaker, a preacher or a prophet. Maybe their son? It doesn't even really matter since it's all absurd anyway. (  ) knotbox | Jun 9, 2016 |  I finally listened to this famous play by Samuel Beckett. It had been on my radar forever, and it was just a couple of hours long and so I did it. Then I went and read the wikipedia page, to try and figure out what I had listened to. It seems nobody really knows what it's about, nor did the author when he wrote it. Gotta love existentialists. At least I had some idea of what I was getting into, so wasn't exactly terribly surprised by the absurdism. Now I have 1952 covered for my "Century of Books" challenge (reading a book from each year of the 20th century), at least, but I doubt you could make me sit through that play anytime soon. (  ) Smiler69 | May 28, 2016 | Story is like doing laundry. Watching the drier go round. Knowing it will happen again next week. Supposedly means 'Waiting for God." They wait and wait. Hey maybe i have this confused with No Exit by Sartre. By gum i do. Existentialism is dull. (  )1  Bruce_Deming | Feb 5, 2016 | I love this play. I teach it every year and it never gets boring. My students and I never come to the same conclusion of the story, and my conclusion changes all the time. (  ) caseybp | Jan 19, 2016 | It's very different reading this play when you're 15 as compared to when you're 50. In my high school drama class, we loved doing scenes from Godot because it was absurd, but I doubt very much we understood the show's complexity. It features existential banter and dark comedic turns. I think all I got out of it was that the characters were stuck and petulant and clownish. But now at 50 I am starting to get the subtleties that went completely over my head at 15. Plus, I recently saw an excellent production of it which, of course, brought the characters to life. (  ) louis.arata | Jul 31, 2015 | no reviews | add a review
Is contained inSeven Plays of the Modern Theatre by Grove Press The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett: Volume III of The Grove Centenary Editions (Works of Samuel Beckett the Grove Cent by Samuel Beckett Is parodied inHas as a commentary on the textHas as a student's study guide
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0802130348, Paperback)A seminal work of twentieth-century drama, Waiting for Godot was Samuel Beckett’s first professionally produced play. It opened in Paris in 1953 at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone, and has since become a cornerstone of twentieth-century theater. The story line revolves around two seemingly homeless men waiting for someoneor somethingnamed Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree on a barren stretch of road, inhabiting a drama spun from their own consciousness. The result is a comical wordplay of poetry, dreamscapes, and nonsense, which has been interpreted as a somber summation of mankind’s inexhaustible search for meaning. Beckett’s language pioneered an expressionistic minimalism that captured the existentialism of post-World War II Europe. His play remains one of the most magical and beautiful allegories of our time. (retrieved from Amazon Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:22:07 -0400) Two old tramps wait on a bare stretch of road near a tree for Godot. |
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