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Samuel Beckett


Born
in Foxrock, Dublin, Ireland
April 13, 1906

Died
December 22, 1989

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Genre
Literature & Fiction, Theatre, Poetry

Influences
James Joyce, Dante Alighieri, Schopenhauer, Marcel Proust, Yeats, Sad ...more


Novels of Samuel Barclay Beckett, Irish writer, include Murphy in 1938 and Malone Dies in 1951; a wider audience know his absurdist plays, such as Waiting for Godot in 1952 and Krapp's Last Tape in 1959, and he won the Nobel Prize of 1969 for literature.

Samuel Barclay Beckett, an avant-garde theater director and poet, lived in France for most of his adult life. He used English and French. His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black gallows humor.

People regard most influence of Samuel Barclay Beckett of the 20th century. James Augustine Aloysius Joyce strongly influenced him, whom people consider as one modernist. People sometimes consider him as an inspiration to many later first p ...more

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Average rating: 3.86 · 353,749 ratings · 21,316 reviews · 927 distinct works • Similar authors
Waiting for Godot
3.84 avg rating — 225,004 ratings — published 1951 — 477 editions
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Endgame
3.79 avg rating — 24,679 ratings — published 1957 — 98 editions
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Endgame & Act Without Words
3.92 avg rating — 11,230 ratings — published 1957 — 41 editions
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Molloy
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4.28 avg rating — 9,521 ratings — published 1958 — 91 editions
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Happy Days
3.83 avg rating — 7,532 ratings — published 1961 — 6 editions
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Murphy
3.80 avg rating — 6,553 ratings — published 1938 — 110 editions
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Malone Dies
3.85 avg rating — 5,926 ratings — published 1951 — 122 editions
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Krapp's Last Tape & Embers
4.01 avg rating — 5,130 ratings — published 1958 — 29 editions
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Watt
3.88 avg rating — 3,801 ratings — published 1953 — 88 editions
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“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
― Samuel Beckett
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“All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
― Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho
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“Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.”
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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955) 368 pages
 
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Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (1952) 109 pages
 
  45 votes, 18.7%

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol (1842) 464 pages
 
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The Praise of Folly by Erasmus (1511) 109 pages
 
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