Samuel Beckett

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

History, Arts, Books

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2019

⏱️ 79 minutes

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We're back! A newly reenergized Jacke Wilson returns for a deep dive into the life, works, and politics of Samuel Beckett. Yes, we know him as one of the key figures bridging the gap between modernism and post-modernism - but was he more than just a highly refined artist generating art for art's sake? Was he engaged with his times? And if so, how might that engagement have affected his writings? We'll immerse ourselves in Waiting for Godot and some of Beckett's other works for our answer.. Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. (We appreciate it!) Find out more at historyofliterature.com, jackewilson.com, or by following Jacke and Mike on Twitter at @thejackewilson and @literatureSC. Or send an email to jackewilsonauthor@gmail.com. *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to The History of Literature, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding literature, history, and storytelling like Storybound, Micheaux Mission, and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglamorate Network and LIT Hub Radio.
0:07.0	Oh boy, Here we go.
0:23.0	Aye.
0:25.0	All right, here we go. A recharge, Jack Wilson, full of energy, is going to take on Samuel Beckett. Of all the
0:39.4	writers of the world, I get the one in whose most famous play nothing happens and then nothing happens again.
0:46.0	Well, something's happening here in the Jack Wilson studio.
0:50.0	I'm making plans trying to get things done.
0:53.0	I'm back in the thick of the scramble, my friends,
0:56.0	just like those eggs and peppers and onions you throw in the hot sizzling pan.
1:02.0	A Western omelet of a podcast with some announcements, some
1:06.9	Samuel Beckett. Our guest and expert on the politics of Samuel Beckett,
1:12.0	Nick Ballaro, who's getting his PhD in
1:13.8	theater and performance studies at the University of Pittsburgh. All that and more
1:19.0	today on the history of literature. Okay, here we go. Welcome to the podcast. I'm Jack Wilson great show today Sam Beckett I did I had a
1:46.3	misconception of mr Beckett before starting this one that happens I took a couple of
1:51.8	facts and stitch them together and made some assumptions.
1:55.7	I had thought of him as a lonely writer buried in his own mind following on the heels of two Titans of Modernism, Proust and Joyce.
2:06.4	Knowing how experimental his theater got
2:09.5	and his own novels, I assumed he was also kind of a hermit agonizing over words I think he had
2:16.4	that side to him but he also had a lot of fascinating activity in his life
2:21.0	we'll sketch out his biography including his most famous works like
2:24.7	waiting for Godot in a moment.
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