1. Excess and Reduction in Samuel Beckett, Raffaella Cantillo, LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing (2016), 256 Seiten, Taschenbuch 55,90 Euro
This book is the outcome of many years of study in the field of Beckett studies, collating research taken from my three dissertations (MA, MPhil, PhD) on Samuel Beckett’s oeuvre. It is focussed primarily on his early years and it seeks to trace elements of those early steps throughout Beckett’s further works. I am of course indebted to Prof. Pilling’s formidable supervision at Reading University and to the resources made available to the University by the BIF (UK).
2. Samuel Beckett and Cinema (Serie: Historicizing Modernism), Anthony Paraskeva, Bloomsbury 3PL (2017), 202 Seiten, Hardcover 80 Pfund, ebook (Kindle) 53,99 Pfund
This book is the first book to examine comprehensively the full extent of Beckett’s engagement with cinema and its influence on his work for stage and screen. The book situates Beckett within the context of first and second wave modernist filmmaking, including the work of figures such as Vertov, Keaton, Lang, Epstein, Flaherty, Dreyer, Godard, Bresson, Resnais, Duras, Rogosin and Hitchcock.
und: Ein älteres Buch – für Beckettianer ein Muss; sehr empfehlenswert:
3. Beckett (Das Begehren ist nicht totzukriegen), Alain Badiou, diaphanes Verlag 2006, aus dem Französischen von Heinz Jatho (Beckett. L’increvable desir), 14,95 Euro
Das gängige Beckett-Klischee des dunklen Existentialisten, die stereotyp wiederholte Ästhetik des Negativen hebelt Badiou aus und entdeckt zentrale Aspekte des Schönen, tiefverwurzelte Motive der Liebe und einen sehr präzisen Wahrheitsbegriff.