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| Original Title: | Krapp's Last Tape |
| ISBN: | 0571062091 (ISBN13: 9780571062096) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Krapp |
| Setting: | United Kingdom |
Samuel Beckett
Paperback | Pages: 48 pages Rating: 4.05 | 3932 Users | 105 Reviews
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| Title | : | Krapp's Last Tape & Embers |
| Author | : | Samuel Beckett |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 48 pages |
| Published | : | February 16th 1998 by Faber & Faber (first published 1958) |
| Categories | : | Plays. Drama. Theatre. Classics. European Literature. Irish Literature. Fiction |
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These two pieces are both one-man acts and in both cases the men are haunted by the voices of the past, but Beckett never illustrates such things in straightforward ways.Beckett makes me think more than most writers do. And that’s kind of important. His plays never really say anything. They don’t give you their meanings, you are left to fill in the gaps their emptiness evokes. There’s always some form of silence, something not quite said.
Krapp’s Last Tape
“Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.”
Beckett tells his stories through motions and actions as well as words. The details that go into his stage directions are particular and exact. They are so full of life, a dreary sort of life that accompanies the melancholy and absurd characters he curses with existence. None of them are happy and they all seem to be existing in a space devoid of the joy they once felt at an earlier time, memories haunt them as they suffer through madness and life absent from any real feeling. Krapp, as he listens to his old tapes, is a classic example
Krapp has had a crap life. (Is this an intentional pun, Beckett?) As he listens to the voice recordings of a much younger version of himself, he realises how unfulfilled he is. He laments a girl he once loved and intellectual precision and strength he has now lost through drink and age. The recording move forward with a tremendous amount of momentum and forward movement until Krapp reaches a final realisation: the best years have gone, but the bitterness and disappointment has awarded him with fire.
Fire to do what though? And this question hangs over me as the curtain is lowered. Krapp sits in a dark room thinking about bygone days, as he records his last tape, he is ready to move on and take a drastic action. The fire might just be the energy he needs to take his own life. Death is certainly present in the room through the entirety of this chilling piece of drama.
The Embers
“My father back from the dead to be with me.”
This one was never even meant for the stage: it’s a radio piece instead. It’s a dark and brooding piece about a son who still hears the voices of those departed. They haunt his mind as he walks along the beach, and, like Krapp, he seems to struggle with memories of the past. They pervade the present. It’s the lesser of the two pieces and is dwarfed by the obscurity the ending of the previous one delivers.
More Beckett for me in the future
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Ratings: 4.05 From 3932 Users | 105 ReviewsCommentary Out Of Books Krapp's Last Tape & Embers
Eating so many bananas is a recipe for disaster.the setting just welcomed me to enter the world of theater which now is one of my interest. I still digging on the concept of something between man and women. Krapp really done it in his own way. such a solid personality.
The "plight" of the character in this story reminded me of my situation not to long ago. I was reading and re-reading old journals of mine that started as early as junior high. I originally was just reading the journal I kept while I was in Iraq fro a story I'm writin gbut then I began to read other journals. It was very bizarre to read the narration of soemone I used to be. Like Krapp, I laughed at my foolish young ambitions and brooded over past romance. Fortunately, I destroyed the majority
An old man sits alone in a room surrounded by darkness and nothing more. He pulls out a tape recorder and starts listening to recordings that he made back when he was younger. The memories float back to him from times long gone. He is dying but has no one left around him to talk to and nothing to talk about. He listens to the recordings that he made when he was younger. Memories float back to him but they have lost all their meaning, their grandeur and their playfulness, they mean very little to
This is my second Samuel Beckett in recent months, and I know he is one of the greats of English literature, but I cannot relate. "Krapp's Last Tape" was one of four monologues all dealing with similar themes --old age, memories, light and dark, loneliness. Perhaps loneliness is not the right word -- rather the sense that man is alone. Beckett's gloomy outlook on life just doesn't speak to my cheerful outlook on life.
These two pieces are both one-man acts and in both cases the men are haunted by the voices of the past, but Beckett never illustrates such things in straightforward ways. Beckett makes me think more than most writers do. And thats kind of important. His plays never really say anything. They dont give you their meanings, you are left to fill in the gaps their emptiness evokes. Theres always some form of silence, something not quite said. Krapps Last Tape Perhaps my best years are gone. When
Samuel Beckett was very precise with the stage directions for his plays. So, when beginning to read Krapp's Last Tape, a very short play, it is not surprising that the initial directions (before Krapp says a single word) take up one whole page. We learn a lot about Krapp in that page, before the dialogue begins, and he actually turns on the tape. There is even a bit of slapstick comedy (not many moments like that in this brief drama) and as he chooses a spool (this is what we would now consider
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