More pricks than kicks
Book - 1972
A collection of ten short stories tracing the career of Belacqua Shuah. Belacqua--the first of Beckett's anti-heroes, a student, philanderer, and failure--studies Dante, carries on an ill-fated courtship, witnesses grotesque incidents in the streets of Dublin, attends vapid parties, endures a troubled marriage, and finally meets an accidental death. The work reveals the early stages of one of Beckett's underlying themes, bewilderment in the face of suffering.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Short stories
- Published
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New York :
Grove Press
1972.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First Evergreen edition
- Item Description
- Originally published by Chatto and Windus, 1934.
- Physical Description
- 191 pages ; 21 cm
- ISBN
- 9780394177892
9780802151377
- Dante and the lobster
- Fingal
- Ding-dong
- A wet night
- Love and Lethe
- Walking out
- What a misfortune
- The Smeraldina's billet doux
- Yellow
- Draff.
