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Bernard Shaw: The Ascent of the Superman.(Brief Article)

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From: The Economist (US)
Date: 19960518
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THE WORLD OF SAMUEL BECKETT. By Lois Gordon. Yale; 264 pages; $28.50 and Pounds 19.95.

BERNARD SHAW: THE ASCENT OF THE SUPERMAN. By Sally Peters. Yale; 335 pages; $28.50 and Pounds 18.95

FROM reading these two books you might conclude that the only attributes held in common by George Bernard Shaw and Samuel Beckett were nationality and vocation. Before Lois Gordon's book you might have held the belief that both were also hypochondriacal, but she passionately disputes even this in the case of Beckett.

The weakness of her book has its origin in her references to Deirdre Bair's ...

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