Quotes from book
Proust

Proust
Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett's essay Proust, published in 1930, is an aesthetic and epistemological manifesto that is more concerned with Beckett's influences and preoccupations than with its ostensible subject.

Samuel Beckett photo

“The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious intellectual effort to reconstitute the invisible and unthinkable as a reality being fruitless, we are incapable of appreciating our joy by comparing it with our sorrow.”

Samuel Beckett book Proust

Proust (1957), p. 4

Similar authors

Samuel Beckett photo
Samuel Beckett122
Irish novelist, playwright, and poet 1906–1989
W.B. Yeats photo
W.B. Yeats255
Irish poet and playwright None
Seamus Heaney photo
Seamus Heaney29
Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer None
James Joyce photo
James Joyce191
Irish novelist and poet None
John Galsworthy photo
John Galsworthy48
English novelist and playwright None
William Golding photo
William Golding79
British novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Lite… None
George Bernard Shaw photo
George Bernard Shaw413
Irish playwright None
Doris Lessing photo
Doris Lessing94
British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer … None
Marcel Pagnol photo
Marcel Pagnol9
novelist, playwright and filmmaker from France None
Sinclair Lewis photo
Sinclair Lewis136
American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright None