The New Yorker: Fiction · The New Yorker
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads Samuel Beckett
April 1, 2023·1 hr 17 min·5 clips
Saïd reveals how Beckett's portrayal of an old woman's aloneness mirrors his own mother's final days.
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A severe, absorbing Beckett episode for listeners drawn to fiction that moves by image, silence, and pressure.
Samuel Beckett's "Ill Seen, Ill Said" gives this Fiction Podcast episode its severe, flickering center: a solitary woman, a chair, a bowl, a lamb, stones, darkness, and an eye trying to hold an image that keeps vanishing.
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