“Le Surréalisme en 1947″ Catalogue by Marcel Duchamp

As diverse as the items on offer, prices range from about $50 to the millions. These include a book of hand-drawn cats by Andy Warhol, an illustrated copy of the classic fairy tale Hansel And Gretel, prints by Norman Rockwell, an artist book by multi-talented musician John Cage, and drawings by Queen Victoria. Ī number of dealers have also brought exceptional items related to art and design. This year, nearly 200 exhibitors from 17 countries make up a maze of booths winding through the armory, each brimming with paper-based treasures, from a copy of Shakespeare’s Third Folio to rare editions of James Joyce’s Ulysses. The annual event is widely considered the world’s finest book fair, where both serious collectors and curious onlookers alike are welcome to explore. All this weekend, a wide assortment of historic tomes, manuscripts, first editions, illustrations, maps, and even collectible menus are packed into Manhattan’s Park Avenue Armory for the 63rd edition of the fair. Waiting for Godot is a must-read, even if the only thing you glean is the ability to find humour in a bowler-hat or an ill-fitting boot.Bibliophiles rejoice-the Antiquarian Book Fair has returned. There are a variety of interpretations, many of them psychologically-based, but as Beckett was tight-lipped about the meaning of the play it remains an open read, a framework upon which any number of meanings and emotions may be hung. I found this play to be both tragic and laugh-out-loud hilarious. But is it enough, that's what tortures me, is it enough?' Having stopped a short while by the tree under which Vladimir and Estragon have been waiting, Pozzo feels duty-bound to entertain the pair, and his earnest lamentation could easily be that of a playwright to an audience 'I have given them bones, I have talked to them about this and that, I have explained the twilight, admittedly. Lucky responds with (as described by Mercier) 'dog-like devotion'. Pozzo, who at first seems the dominant of the pair, controls Lucky by means of a long rope. Part-way through, the pair are interrupted by the arrival of Lucky and Pozzo. What's more, since the second act is a subtly different reprise of the first, he has written a play in which nothing happens, twice.' So what fills the pages?

has achieved a theoretical impossibility-a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps audiences glued to their seats. Nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful!' This sentiment is echoed by critics Irish critic Vivian Mercier has famously said of the play '(Beckett). The absurdist play is almost entirely dialogue, in which, as Estragon once states, 'Nothing happens.

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