Samuel Beckett - "Mute" Interview for Swedish Television - 1969
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ม.ค. 2021
- On October 23, 1969, Samuel Beckett's publisher, Jérôme Lindon, received a telegram from the Swedish Academy informing him that Beckett had been awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature. Lindon swiftly relayed the message to Beckett with a telegram of his own: "Dear Sam and Suzanne. In spite of everything, they have given you the Nobel Prize--I advise you to go into hiding."
According to Lindon, both Beckett and his wife were appalled and distressed by the announcement of the prize. Beckett anticipated the disruption of his reclusive lifestyle by way of this immediate spike in fame.
Beckett, then staying at the Hotel Riadh in Nabeul, Tunisia, nevertheless agrees to an interview with Swedish Television but on the condition that he is asked no questions.
- paraphrased from "Damned to Fame" by James Knowlson - ยานยนต์และพาหนะ
my boy Sammy looking dapper for his Vogue covershoot
Voilà
He was renowned for his dark sense of humour in life as well as in his plays, which a lot of people don't spot in his work. Once while watching the sunset with a friend, his friend is said to have remarked, "Ahh, it's great to be alive" to which Beckett replied, "I wouldn't go that far."
Watt is perhaps the funniest novel I have read. Humour very much essential to Beckett 👍🏿
@@kilgoretrout413 Molloy and Malone Dies is the funniest things i know in any form of art.
bro nabbed this from the school of life sam beckett video
I think it was Pinter and Beckett watching cricket at Lord's, with someone scoring a hundred before lunch on a beautiful summer's day. Pinter: "It's the sort of day that makes you glad to be alive." SB: "I wouldn't go that far."
This has got to be the best interview I have ever seen or heard.
Dude had the best hairstyle of any known literature writers.
Not better than Wilde's hairstyle. (Another Irish, by the way...)
@ Oscar? His was good but uh...gay.
He looks like a fan of Depeche Mode.
Pound.
I was just going to say the same thing myself.
damn those eyes pierce half a century and peer right into my soul
I love old school trolls.
I must say that shot at 0:10 of the hand reaching out was extremely Bergman
Or some ten years later, that hand opening the door for Love Will Tear Us Apart/Unknown Pleasures?
I'm speechless ! (and thoughtless) no one says it like Sam !
It's that profile......has there ever been anyone who loooks like Sam? The scariest, the kindest, most comapassionate man alive at that time. It's a rare day that his words don't drop into my mind as a neighbour might call around my house at some point or another. And another. And time passes. Night falls into darkness. And so does day.
I am alone. Time passes.
I love the man. End of.
Apparently he was a cheerful character who liked a drink and a laugh.
He was also a dedicated Chopin-player (yes, he was a skilled piannist) and generally a great humorist of our times (but not a comedian - that was a "cosmic sense of humour" and not "comedy").
& a sportsman. The only Nobel winner to play first class cricket
Silence speaks volumes.
To quote Estragon (giving up again): "Nothing to be done."
What a beautiful man 🏔
Even through his silence and his face .. you can reach a full meaning .
You really can't
@@Namajaff Yes you can. Silence is the most perfect and complete statement on anything.
@low No, you can't.
Polish poet (of Jewish descent) Julian Tuwim said (in Polish):
Silence is a text that is extremely easy to misinterpret.
@@Dalkyan Blame language for misinterpreting and not silence.
@@Dalkyan Is it relevant that he is Jewish? Or Polish?
Saw this clip on Swedish TV in 1969. Have always thought it was in Alger. Now it’s revealed it was in Tunis… my world falls apart.
This is amazing. Thank you very much!
The film ended right before an anguished cry of "good god, do you EVER shut up?!"
Debate continues as to whose shout it was.
: ) Brilliant - Beckett conjured perfectly there, Rob!
So many topics covered...
Me encanta!
Footage should have been added the Pioneer's Golden disc record selection.
do you have subtitles for this??
@@MerlotAndTheColdSteelCoffin seatities
We’re waiting for Godot to finish transcribing it
one of my fav writers! ❤
Oh, yeah, can you say why? What have you read, apart from Waiting for Godot - if even that?
@@cptpepper7731 with this kind of question, u deserve only 🤣
@@bebe8842 I seriously doubt anyone who comments "he's of my fav writers" about Beckett has any clue about Beckett. Sorry.
@@cptpepper7731 oh ur 1 of those grammar nazi. ur def a bored, biased boomer and if not, oh ....
@@bebe8842 Inclined to agree with Pepper here. 'Fav' and emojis don't tango with Beckett. No matter. Go again. All settled in the end.
When anyone asks me who is a good looking and elegant man, I say Samuel Beckett.
A short doc about this would be interesting.
Beckett's parody of a Bergman film.
I thought he'd never shut up.
maestro
he gazed a gazy stare
To restore silence is the purpose of things
More interviewees should follow this example.
A few
Pictures,
Paints
A
Thousand
Words.
I feel like he is trying to tell us something with those eyes,
A man of letters not so many words
This one was shot in Tunisia. Beckett's silence has always been a substitute for language, but here in this video, there are some background voices of Tunisian people speaking to each other in Tunisian dialect, using all types of gross words that most Tunisians use in their daily conversations 😆! As a Beckettian scholar myself, I can recognize that as a tragicomic irony! Beckett wanted this interview to be silent, yet Tunisians filled in the gaps of his silence in their own way...However, because what they say is utterly meaningless, then it is for that reason as well that we can consider the whole thing as Beckettian 🙃!
The silent walks with his father were his utopia. The silence in "Unnamable" takes the form of the utopia of a world redeemed from unjust pain, a world that will not reproduce dark fine arts like Beckett's.
The genuine bodily article!
Let's go then.
Hilarious, akin to a Monthy Python sketch.
Silence is golden. Never more so than in the age of lies and deceptions 2020/21/22...
SAM is My Man...Play it again, SAM !
Interviewer: ...
Him: ...
This goes
it's true isn't it he never gave a speech or lecture to the Swedish academy which awarded him The Nobel Prize? Who collected the award?
Hi~ I am a Korean film maker, I ve made a film which has story about Wating for Godo, I want to insert this video as prologue on my movie just few seconds. But I am concerned about copyright of this video. So where could i ask about copyright of this video, Or if you have a copyright of this video, Could I use this video for my movie. Please let me know if it is okay to use this or not! Thank you
i don’t care if you use it, it’s not my footage
@@GrantInnis Where did this footage come from? Which Swedish Television station? Do you know?
did you find where the footage came from?
@@jacobadams5924I believe it's SVT (Sveriges Television) since it was the only TV company at that time
ngl this shit fye af... blud just posted up ice cold with the fit chilly af zipped af not snitching on gang... thug shit
Weird
Says it all without saying anything.
this might as well be monty python
My honest reaction
SUS LÜTFENCİLER??
😂
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Faust 2.0 (neverending...badly)
Too over the top dude needs to calm down
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will you please be quiet, please?
Vaov, hi Mr Watt, where ise Murphy?
Forehead like graph paper
😂