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Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads Samuel Beckett

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Beckett's Condensing

"This is quite a late piece for Beckett, written when he was in his 70s,. about eight years before he died. Maybe he's seeing the end." "I could only talk about things in the heaviest of ways. I couldn't find the lightness in them"

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