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    Masculinity

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    Influences

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    Literary History

    On the Difficulty of Convincing Samuel Beckett of Just About Anything

    By Deirdre Bair  November 11, 2019
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    Developers plan to turn the setting of Joyce’s “The Dead” into a 56-room hostel.

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