The New Yorker: Fiction

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads Samuel Beckett

Apr 1, 2023

01:16:48

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Saïd Sayrafiezadeh

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

Beckett's Condensing

2min

The End of a Life

2min

The Cabin in a Formless Place

6min

The Eye of the Zone of Stones

3min

The Importance of Time

5min

The Unreasoning Goes

3min

The Eye Returns to the Scene of Its Portrayals

5min

The Left Hand Lacks Its Third Finger

6min

10.

The Sleep of a Lamb

3min

11.

The Grizzly Cupboard

4min

12.

The Stone That Draws Her When Revealed

6min

13.

The Eyes Closed in the Dark

2min

14.

The Unbroken Night Universal Stone

6min

15.

The Adieu Alone on the Face of the Skull

3min

16.

The Last Days of an Old Woman Meeting Her End

2min

17.

The Last Days of a Woman

2min

18.

Beckett's Theory of Hauntedness

2min

19.

The Death of the Soul

2min

20.

The 12 Guardians

2min

21.

The Lamb and the 12 Guardians

2min

22.

The Long Story of a Lone Man on Stage

2min

23.

The Play of Language

2min

24.

Beckett's Response to Questions

2min

25.

The Night Star and the Morning Star

2min

26.

The Importance of Seeing Life Correctly

2min

27.

Deborah Samuel Beckett on the Human Condition

2min

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Ill Seen Ill Said,” by Samuel Beckett, which was published in The New Yorker in 1981. Sayrafiezadeh is the author of a memoir and two story collections, the most recent of which, “American Estrangement,” was published in 2021.

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