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'THERE ARE MANY facets to Samuel Beckett's writing - humour, despair, love, poignancy, suffering - but for me there is one dominant characteristic, compassion, compassion for the human condition of existence.' So begins Eoin O'Brien's title essay, an observation that stands for the collection as it broadens out into convergent streams of essays on literature and medicine. Part One uses on the nature of friendship and connectivity, on the role of the good doctor' and the sentient individual in society. Intimate portraits of literary Dublin in the twentieth century and earlier, Samuel Beckett, Con Leventhal, Nevill Johnson, Denis Johnston, Mícheál MacLiammóir and Petr Skrabanek; Corrigan, Gogarty and Korotkoff, Chekov and Handel, speak of exemplars past and values present, as the influence of the arts is inscribed on a doctor's life and work. The Beckett essays alone yield remarkable commentary on Ireland's greatest early modernist, and include a little-known account of the Irish Hospital at Saint-Lôin Normandy, where Beckett worked as a storekeeper in 1946: a poignant drama of humanity in ruins' that informed his subsequent work. The Corruption of Privilege', addressed in Part Two,

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Author

Eoin O'Brien

Publisher

The Lilliput Press Ltd

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781843513889

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Literary Collections, Literary Fiction