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Cascando
''Cascando'' is a radio play by Samuel Beckett. It was written in French in December 1961, subtitled ''Invention radiophonique pour musique et voix'', with music by the Franco-Romanian composer Marcel Mihalovici. It was first broadcast on France Culture on 13 October 1963 with Roger Blin (''L'Ouvreur'') and Jean Martin (''La Voix''). The first English production was on 6 October 1964 on BBC Radio 3 with Denys Hawthorne (Opener) and Patrick Magee (Voice). “The play was originally to be called ''Calando'', a musical term meaning 'diminishing in tone' (equivalent to '' diminuendo or decrescendo''), but Beckett changed it when ORTF officials pointed out that ''calendos'' was the slang word for camembert in French."Bair, D., ''Samuel Beckett: A Biography'' (London: Vintage, 1990), p 574 The term ‘''cascando''’ (‘cascades’) involves the decrease of volume and the deceleration of tempo.'' ''Cascando'' is also the title of a 1936 poem by Beckett. Structure “Beckett first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cascando
''Cascando'' is a radio play by Samuel Beckett. It was written in French in December 1961, subtitled ''Invention radiophonique pour musique et voix'', with music by the Franco-Romanian composer Marcel Mihalovici. It was first broadcast on France Culture on 13 October 1963 with Roger Blin (''L'Ouvreur'') and Jean Martin (''La Voix''). The first English production was on 6 October 1964 on BBC Radio 3 with Denys Hawthorne (Opener) and Patrick Magee (Voice). “The play was originally to be called ''Calando'', a musical term meaning 'diminishing in tone' (equivalent to '' diminuendo or decrescendo''), but Beckett changed it when ORTF officials pointed out that ''calendos'' was the slang word for camembert in French."Bair, D., ''Samuel Beckett: A Biography'' (London: Vintage, 1990), p 574 The term ‘''cascando''’ (‘cascades’) involves the decrease of volume and the deceleration of tempo.'' ''Cascando'' is also the title of a 1936 poem by Beckett. Structure “Beckett first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rough For Radio I
''Rough for Radio I'' is a short radio play by Samuel Beckett, written in French in 1961 and first published in '' Minuit'' 5 in September 1973 as ''Esquisse radiophonique''. Its first English publication as ''Sketch for Radio Play'' was in ''Stereo Headphones'' 7 (spring 1976). It first appeared under its current title in ''Ends and Odds'' (Grove 1976, Faber 1977). "Plans for a BBC production, with Humphrey Searle providing the music, were made soon after the publication of the original French version but came to nothing and a later BBC proposal to produce the play without music was rejected by Beckett in the late 1970s. According to the Beckett estate the French version was produced by ORTF (Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française) in 1962, although Beckett himself seems later to have forgotten about this production."Fox, C., âSquare Dances an introduction to the music of Richard Rijnvos€™ in ''The Musical Times'' winter 1999 (volume 140, number 1869) A complete run of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal and tragicomic experiences of life, often coupled with black comedy and nonsense. It became increasingly minimalist as his career progressed, involving more aesthetic and linguistic experimentation, with techniques of repetition and self-reference. He is considered one of the last modernist writers, and one of the key figures in what Martin Esslin called the Theatre of the Absurd. A resident of Paris for most of his adult life, Beckett wrote in both French and English. During the Second World War, Beckett was a member of the French Resistance group Gloria SMH (Réseau Gloria). Beckett was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation". He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Mihalovici
Marcel Mihalovici (Bucharest, 22 October 1898 – Paris, 12 August 1985) was a French composer born in Romania. He was discovered by George Enescu in Bucharest. He moved to Paris in 1919 (at age 21) to study under Vincent d'Indy. His works include his ''Sonata number 1 for violin and piano'' (1920), ''Mélusine'' opera (1920, libretto by Yvan Goll), his ''1st string quartet'' (1923), ''2nd string quartet'' (1931), ''Sonata number 2 for violin and piano'' (1941), ''Sonata for violin and cello'' (1944), ''Phèdre'' Opera (1949), ''Étude in two parts for piano and instrumental ensemble'' (1951) and ''Esercizio per archi'' (1960). Many of his piano works were first performed by his wife, the concert pianist Monique Haas. Mihalovici was the original composer for the music of Samuel Beckett's radio play ''Cascando'' (1962). His ''Fifth Symphony'' features a soprano singing a setting of a Beckett poem, and he used ''Krapp's Last Tape'' as the basis for a small opera, Krapp, ou, La dernià ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Death Instinct
In classical Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the death drive (german: Todestrieb) is the Drive theory, drive toward death and destruction, often expressed through behaviors such as aggression, repetition compulsion, and self-destructive behavior, self-destructiveness.Eric Berne, ''What Do You say After You Say Hello?'' (London, 1975) pp. 399–400. It was originally proposed by Sabina Spielrein in her paper "Destruction as the Cause of Coming Into Being" (''Die Destruktion als Ursache des Werdens'') in 1912, which was then taken up by Sigmund Freud in 1920 in ''Beyond the Pleasure Principle.'' This concept has been translated as "opposition between the ego or death instincts and the sexual or life instincts". In ''Pleasure Principle'', Freud used the plural "death drives" (''Todestriebe'') much more frequently than the singular. The death drive opposes Eros (concept)#Freud, Eros, the tendency toward survival, propagation, sex, and other creative, life-producing drives. The death d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Embers
''Embers'' is a radio play by Samuel Beckett. It was written in English in 1957. First broadcast on the BBC Third Programme on 24 June 1959, the play won the RAI prize at the Prix Italia awards later that year. Donald McWhinnie directed Jack MacGowran – for whom the play was specially written – as "Henry", Kathleen Michael as "Ada" and Patrick Magee as "Riding Master" and "Music Master". The play was translated into French by Beckett himself and Robert Pinget as ''Cendres'' and was published in 1959 by . The first stage production was by the French Graduate Circle of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Festival, 1977." The most recent version of ''Embers'' was broadcast in 2006 on BBC Radio 3 and directed by Stephen Rea. The cast included Michael Gambon as Henry, Sinéad Cusack as Ada, Rupert Graves, Alvaro Lucchesi and Carly Baker. This production was rebroadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 16 May 2010 as part of a double bill with a 2006 production of ''Krapp's Last Tape''. Opinions vary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krapp's Last Tape
''Krapp's Last Tape'' is a 1958 one-act play, in English, by Samuel Beckett. With a cast of one man, it was written for Northern Irish actor Patrick Magee (actor), Patrick Magee and first titled "Magee monologue". It was inspired by Beckett's experience of listening to Magee reading extracts from ''Molloy (novel), Molloy'' and ''From an Abandoned Work'' on the BBC Third Programme in December 1957. It is considered to be among Beckett’s major dramas. History First publication In a letter to a London bookseller Jake Schwartz on 15 March 1958, Beckett wrote that he had "'four states, in typescript, with copious notes and dirty corrections, of a short stage monologue I have just written (in English) for Pat Magee. This was composed on the machine from a tangle of old notes, so I have not the Manuscript, MS to offer you." According to Ackerley and Gontarski, "It was first published in ''Evergreen Review'' 2.5 (summer 1958), then in ''Krapp's Last Tape and Embers'' (Faber, 1959), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stirrings Still
''Stirrings Still'' is the final prose piece by Samuel Beckett,Peter Boxall. Still Stirrings : Beckett's Prose from ''Texts for Nothing'' to ''Stirrings Still''. In ''The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett'' (Dirk Van Hulle, ed.), pp. 33-47 (Cambridge University Press; 2015) written 1986–89 to give his American publisher, Barney Rosset, something to publish. First published in a signed limited edition, it was later republished in the posthumous edition ''As The Story Was Told'' (1990). The piece was published in its entirety in ''The Guardian'' on 3 March 1989. This edition also included a review of the limited edition by Frank Kermode, and a piece on the history of the work's publication by John Calder. In 2004, members of Binghamton University's English Department founded a scholarly journal An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metaphor
A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another. It may provide (or obscure) clarity or identify hidden similarities between two different ideas. Metaphors are often compared with other types of figurative language, such as antithesis, hyperbole, metonymy, and simile. One of the most commonly cited examples of a metaphor in English literature comes from the "All the world's a stage" monologue from '' As You Like It'': All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances And one man in his time plays many parts, His Acts being seven ages. At first, the infant... :—William Shakespeare, '' As You Like It'', 2/7 This quotation expresses a metaphor because the world is not literally a stage, and most humans are not literally actors and actresses playing roles. By asserting that the world is a stage, Shakespeare uses points of comparison between the world an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. It typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers. It has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity. His best known works include the short story "The Metamorphosis" and novels ''The Trial'' and '' The Castle''. The term ''Kafkaesque'' has entered English to describe absurd situations, like those depicted in his writing. Kafka was born into a middle-class German-speaking Czech Jewish family in Prague, the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, today the capital of the Czech Republic. He trained as a lawyer and after completing his legal education was employed full-ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Writer's Block
Writer's block is a condition, primarily associated with writing, in which an author is either unable to produce new work or experiences a creative slowdown. Mike Rose found that this creative stall is not a result of commitment problems or the lack of writing skills. The condition ranges from difficulty in coming up with original ideas to being unable to produce a work for years. Writer's block is not solely measured by time passing without writing. It is measured by time passing without productivity in the task at hand. History Throughout history, writer's block has been a documented problem.Clark, Irene. "Invention." ''Concepts in Composition: Theory and Practice in the Teaching of Writing''. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2012. Professionals who have struggled with the affliction include authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Joseph Mitchell, comic strip cartoonist Charles M. Schulz,Downey, Bill. ''Right Brain – Write ON!''. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1984. c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Repetition Compulsion
Repetition compulsion is the unconscious tendency of a person to repeat a traumatic event or its circumstances. This may take the form of symbolically or literally re-enacting the event, or putting oneself in situations where the event is likely to occur again. Repetition compulsion can also take the form of dreams in which memories and feelings of what happened are repeated, and in cases of psychosis, may even be hallucinated. As a "key component in Freud's understanding of mental life, 'repetition compulsion' ... describes the pattern whereby people endlessly repeat patterns of behaviour which were difficult or distressing in earlier life". Freud Sigmund Freud's use of the concept of "repetition compulsion" (german: Wiederholungszwang) was first defined in the article of 1914, ''Erinnern, Wiederholen und Durcharbeiten'' ("Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through"). Here he noted how "the patient does not ''remember'' anything of what he has forgotten and repressed, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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