The Beckett Address with Robert Coover

THE BECKETT ADDRESS with Robert Coover
Introduction by John Banville
With readings by Barry McGovern
We are delighted to welcome veteran US novelist Robert Coover to Mountains to Sea to deliver the annual Beckett Address, a task for which he is particularly well-suited.  Coover has stated that “Beckett exerted a powerful influence on me at a critical moment” and that from Beckett he “got the closest sense of art as vocation”.  He also credits Beckett with the revelation that it was no longer possible to “go back and write another 19th century novel”, that Beckett’s work signified the end of something, a revelation which has informed the rest of his artistic life.  Truly, Robert Coover is a natural descendant of the great Samuel Beckett
Of all the postmodernist writers, Robert Coover has been described as “probably the funniest and the most malicious”.  Highly praised by Salman Rushdie and John Banville amongst others, Coover is the author of over twenty books of fiction and plays.  At Brown University, he teaches “Cave Writing” (a writing workshop in immersive virtual reality), and other experimental electronic writing and mixed media workshops.
Robert Coover is one of America’s finest stylists, a master of elegant nuance, subtle intent and darkly subversive humour. He is that rarest of things, a poet in an age of prose.
John Banville who will introduce Robert Coover on the night.
(expand on Banville and add something on Barry McGovern too if he’s in)
Wednesday 7th September
8.00pm
Pavilion Theatre
Tickets €15 & €12 Concessions

book_nowIntroduced by John Banville, novelist and literary critic, with readings by Barry McGovern.

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We are delighted to welcome veteran US novelist Robert Coover to Mountains to Sea to deliver the annual Beckett Address, a task for which he is particularly well-suited. Coover has stated that “Beckett exerted a powerful influence on me at a critical moment” and that from Beckett he “got the closest sense of art as vocation”.  He also credits Beckett with the revelation that it was no longer possible to “go back and write another 19th century novel”, that Beckett’s work signified the end of something, a revelation which has informed the rest of his artistic life.  Truly, Robert Coover is a natural descendant of the great Samuel Beckett.

Of all the postmodernist writers, Robert Coover has been described as “probably the funniest and the most malicious”.  Highly praised by Salman Rushdie and John Banville amongst others, Coover is the author of over twenty books of fiction and plays.  At Brown University, he teaches “Cave Writing” (a writing workshop in immersive virtual reality), and other experimental electronic writing and mixed media workshops.  Robert Coover is one of America’s finest stylists, a master of elegant nuance, subtle intent and darkly subversive humour. He is that rarest of things, a poet in an age of prose.

Robert Coover is one ofAmerica’s finest stylists, a master of elegant nuance,subtle intent and darkly subversive humour. He is that rarest of things, a poet in an age of prose. (John Banville)

Wednesday 7th September
8.00pm  Pavilion Theatre
Tickets €12 & €10 Concessions
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