First Love
by Samuel Beckett
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Premier Amour (French Edition) by Samuel Beckett (1998)Tags
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The narrator of "First Love" speaks irreverently of "a genuine interment, with real live mourners and nearly always that charming business with the dust."
It is the death of the father that leads directly to marriage and confrontation with the prostitute; at the end of the story the protagonist is haunted by the cries of a child he may have conceived upon the girl, Lulu, whose name is changed to Anna, almost as if the narrator fears our easy identification of her with the notorious heroine of Wedekind's tragedies.
It is the death of the father that leads directly to marriage and confrontation with the prostitute; at the end of the story the protagonist is haunted by the cries of a child he may have conceived upon the girl, Lulu, whose name is changed to Anna, almost as if the narrator fears our easy identification of her with the notorious heroine of Wedekind's tragedies.
Voici une courte nouvelle totalement absurde.
L'histoire d'un homme qui est riche après avoir hérité de son père, mais qui quitte tout pour se retrouver à la rue et s'éprend, vagabond, d'une femme qui va l'héberger et que l'on comprend être une prostituée.
L'histoire, qui s'intitule Premier amour, pourrait s'intituler Dernier amour et va totalement de guingois du début à la fin.
Mais l'écriture ! Car il s'agit d'un des premiers textes écrits en français par l'auteur et là, il nous surprend, il nous tient fermement par la main car il nous emmène jusqu'à la fin.
Mais qu'est-ce donc que cette histoire ? Même après avoir refermé le livre, je ne sais toujours pas que dire. Ai-je aimé, n'ai-je pas aimé, je n'en sais pas show more davantage. Allez, en tout cas, plus que d'autres de ses ouvrages. show less
L'histoire d'un homme qui est riche après avoir hérité de son père, mais qui quitte tout pour se retrouver à la rue et s'éprend, vagabond, d'une femme qui va l'héberger et que l'on comprend être une prostituée.
L'histoire, qui s'intitule Premier amour, pourrait s'intituler Dernier amour et va totalement de guingois du début à la fin.
Mais l'écriture ! Car il s'agit d'un des premiers textes écrits en français par l'auteur et là, il nous surprend, il nous tient fermement par la main car il nous emmène jusqu'à la fin.
Mais qu'est-ce donc que cette histoire ? Même après avoir refermé le livre, je ne sais toujours pas que dire. Ai-je aimé, n'ai-je pas aimé, je n'en sais pas show more davantage. Allez, en tout cas, plus que d'autres de ses ouvrages. show less
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Nobel Prize winner (1969) Samuel Beckett was born on April 13, 1906 near Dublin, Ireland into a middle-class Protestant family. As a boy, he studied French and enjoyed cricket, tennis, and boxing. At Trinity College he continued his studies in French and Italian and became interested in theater and film, including American film. After graduation, show more Beckett taught English in Paris and traveled through France and Germany. While in Paris Beckett met Suzanne Deschevaus-Dusmesnil. During World War II when Paris was invaded, they joined the Resistance. They were later forced to flee Paris after being betrayed to the Gestapo, but returned in 1945. Beckett and Deschevaus-Dusmesnil married in 1961. Samuel Beckett's first novel was Dream of Fair to Middling Women. Among his many works are Murphy; Malone Dies; and The Unnameable. His plays include Endgame, Happy Days, Not I, That Time, and Krapp's Last Tape. In 1953, the production of Waiting For Godot in Paris by director and actor Roger Blin earned Beckett international fame. Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969. His style was postmodern minimalist and some of his major themes were imprisonment in one's self, the failure of language, and moral conduct in a godless world. Despite his fame, Samuel Beckett led a secluded life. In his later years he suffered from cataracts and emphysema. His wife Suzanne died on July 17, 1989 and Beckett died on December 22nd of the same year. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- First Love
- Original title
- Premier amour
- Original publication date
- 1970 (French) (French); 1973 (English) (English)
- Original language*
- Francés
- Disambiguation notice
- A single work. Do not combine with collections.
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