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Samuel Beckett

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Samuel Beckett

  • Born: April 13,1906
    • Father: William Rank Beckett
    • Mother: Maria Jones
    • He was well known for his absurd play “Waiting for Godot” .
    • Absurd plays explore the causes of human sufferings and man՚s enduring waiting for something unknown.
  • Waiting for Godot (1955) :
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Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot

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A Brief Introduction

  • Samuel Barclay Beckett was born in the year 1906 and died in 1989. He was an Irish novelist, poet and playwright who wrote in English and French.
  • He met James Joyce, the famous Irish writer and their association had a profound impact on his literary career.
  • His first critical essay, “Dante … Bruno. Vico … Joyce” published in 1929 justified Joyce՚s unique literary style.
  • His admiration for certain aspects of Joyce՚s style is reflected in his works.
  • Waiting for Godot is his first and most famous play originally written in French as En Attendant Godot; it was first staged in a small theatre in Paris in 1953. Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969.

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