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      Dante and the Lobster

      by Samuel Beckett
      Published
      Oct 2019
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      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      48
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      Well, thought Belacqua, it’s a quick death, God help us all.

      It is not.

      "Dante and the Lobster" is the first of the linked short stories in Samuel Beckett’s first book, More Pricks Than Kicks. Published in 1934, its style was recognisably indebted to that of his mentor, James Joyce, and crammed with linguistic texture and allusion that Beckett later shed. The book baffled many critics and sold so few copies that several batches were pulped.

      Decades later, this story was hailed as the Nobel Prize-winner’s earliest important work.

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      First Edition Oct 2019 Faber and Faber (UK) ISBN 0571351808
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