Dreams of Fair to Middling Women

7 hrs. 50 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Samuel Beckett

Narrator Nadezhda Vinokurova

Description

A novel by one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate Samuel Beckett, first published in 1993—almost sixty years after it was written. The novel’s main character is a young man named Belacqua, a new incarnation of the figure from Dante’s Purgatory. Belacqua wanders across Europe in a strange half-dream, half-awake world, parting ways with three of his lovers—Smeraldina-Rima, Sira-Cuza, and Alba. Written in a baroque language unlike the “late” Beckett, the book is packed with a vast number of allusions and hidden quotations.