The Lost Ones is the English translation of Le dépeupleur, a short written work by Samuel Beckett. In remarkably dense prose, Beckett describes a small world consisting of a flattened cylinder, fifty meters round and sixteen high, and its pitiable...
She is seated at a dining table. It is a recent acquisition. The bed, the couch, the dresser, the chairs, the coffee table, similarly new. The high-rise apartment is new - to her, anyway - and it has alien vistas, of Baileys Crossroads...
VINNY DiTRANI The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 12-16-2001 NO LOVE LOST IN THIS ONE -- RAVENS, STEELERS UP THE CHATTER GOING INTO SHOWDOWN By VINNY DiTRANI Date: 12-16-2001, Sunday Section: SPORTS Edition: All Editions -- Sunday Column: THE SAGE PAGE - VINNY DiTRANI'S...
Samuel Beckett was born around Easter time, April 13, 1906. His newest book, Ill Seen Ill Said is a sort of birthday present for himself, one might say, mentally grinning with the silent laughter that he has characterized as being most his own kind of laughter, a present for his 75th birthday. And what a fine present it is! Sixty-one short paragraphs of limpid, lucid, uncannily dense, yet light and powerful sentences; sentences neither prose nor poetry, or it would be much better to say, neither prose-poetr...