Beckett’s first ‘literary landmark’ (
St Petersburg Times) is a wonderfully savoury introduction to the Nobel Prize-winning author. Written in 1932, when the twenty-six-year-old Beckett was struggling to make ends meet, the novel offers a rare and revealing portrait of the artist as a young man.
When submitted to several publishers, all of them found it too literary, too scandalous or too risky; it was only published posthumously in 1992. As the story begins, Belacqua – a young version of Molloy, whose love is divided between two women, Smeraldina-Rima and the little Alba – ‘wrestles with his lusts and learning across vocabularies and continents, before a final “relapse into Dublin”’ (
New Yorker) Youthfully exuberant and Joycean in tone,
Dream is a work of extraordinary virtuosity.
| Format |
Inbunden |
| Omfång |
272 sidor |
| Språk |
Engelska |
| Förlag |
Faber & Faber |
| Utgivningsdatum |
2020-04-02 |
| ISBN |
9780571358052 |
