Worstward ho / Samuel Beckett ; paintings Zylla.

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Worstward ho / Samuel Beckett ; paintings Zylla.

2008

https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/8071514

A unique artist's book, with cursive holograph text and original acrylic paintings by Zylla on facing pages. Zylla pairs his large picturesque panels with selections from Samuel Beckett's "Worstward Ho." According to Beckett scholar, Dirk Van Hulle: "It is an attempt to reach the worst possible condition, which proves to be an asymptotic journey: like the infinitesimal attempt to reach 'nothing' with words, the worst cannot be attained with words. For as Shakespeare already wrote in King Lear: 'And worse may I be yet; the worst is not, So long as we can say This is the worst' (IV.1.27-28). Beckett copied this sentence in his 'Sottisier' notebook (RUL MS 2901) while or shortly before he was writing Worstward Ho" (The Literary Encyclopedia website, 03/12/09).

[20] p. : col. ill. ; 50 x 71 cm.

eng, Latn

Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)

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Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)

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Beckett, Samuel Barclay, 1906-1989

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Samuel Barclay Beckett was born on Good Friday, April 13, 1906, in Foxrock, Ireland, near Dublin. He studied modern languages at Trinity College in Dublin and graduated in 1927. The following year, Beckett went to Paris, where he quickly became acquainted with a group of avant-garde artists, including James Joyce. There, Beckett taught English at the École Normale Superieure in Paris for two years before returning to Trinity College to teach French in 1930. He left Trinity College after one year...

Zylla, Klaus.

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