CHRISTMAS BUNDLES
Includes two collector Calder Editions, a tote bag and a surprise Christmas card.
Bundle 1
PROUST
AND THREE DIALOGUES WITH GEORGES DUTHUITSamuel Beckett’s celebrated study of Marcel Proust, whose theories of time were to play a large part in his own work. A brilliant work of critical insight. This volume also contains the equally acclaimed dialogues with the art critic Georges Duthuit on the nature and purpose of art.
PURSUIT
John Calder“Publish and be damned”, Wellington’s famous adage, runs like a leitmotiv through John Calder’s memoirs. He was damned by a censorious press, by politicians, by other publishers and by organs of the state for publishing books on sensitive issues and for such authors as Henry Miller, William Burroughs, Alexander Trocchi and Hubert Selby (among many others.)
Bundle 2
MERCIER AND CAMIER
Written in French after the war, but only translated by the author nearly twenty years later, this is a comic masterpiece where much of the comedy is grim in nature. Built around the chance meetings and missings of the two protagonists, who embark on a journey and return, this piece is probably Beckett’s lightest novel and enormously enjoyable.PURSUIT
John Calder“Publish and be damned”, Wellington’s famous adage, runs like a leitmotiv through John Calder’s memoirs. He was damned by a censorious press, by politicians, by other publishers and by organs of the state for publishing books on sensitive issues and for such authors as Henry Miller, William Burroughs, Alexander Trocchi and Hubert Selby (among many others.)
Bundle 3
ILL SEEN ILL SAID
This piece occupies a special place in the late work of Samuel Beckett, a haunting picture of an old woman, alone in her cabin, who watches the evening and the morning star and ventures out chiefly to visit a grave. In prose of great poetic beauty, which the author translated from the original French text, Beckett returns to the imagery of the Old and New Testaments to speculate on the great questions of human existence.
This piece occupies a special place in the late work of Samuel Beckett, a haunting picture of an old woman, alone in her cabin, who watches the evening and the morning star and ventures out chiefly to visit a grave. In prose of great poetic beauty, which the author translated from the original French text, Beckett returns to the imagery of the Old and New Testaments to speculate on the great questions of human existence.
PURSUIT
John Calder“Publish and be damned”, Wellington’s famous adage, runs like a leitmotiv through John Calder’s memoirs. He was damned by a censorious press, by politicians, by other publishers and by organs of the state for publishing books on sensitive issues and for such authors as Henry Miller, William Burroughs, Alexander Trocchi and Hubert Selby (among many others.)
Bundle 4
COLLECTED POEMS
Re edition of the first anthology of Poetry published by John Calder in 1984. From the early “Whorescope”, written overnight to win the Nancy Cunard Prize in 1930, to the “Mirlittonades”, short outbursts written in French, there is a great variety of mood and style, but the Beckett voice and stoical acceptance of the unpleasantness of the human condition is always present and recognisable.
Re edition of the first anthology of Poetry published by John Calder in 1984. From the early “Whorescope”, written overnight to win the Nancy Cunard Prize in 1930, to the “Mirlittonades”, short outbursts written in French, there is a great variety of mood and style, but the Beckett voice and stoical acceptance of the unpleasantness of the human condition is always present and recognisable.
PURSUIT
John Calder“Publish and be damned”, Wellington’s famous adage, runs like a leitmotiv through John Calder’s memoirs. He was damned by a censorious press, by politicians, by other publishers and by organs of the state for publishing books on sensitive issues and for such authors as Henry Miller, William Burroughs, Alexander Trocchi and Hubert Selby (among many others.)
