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Waiting for Godot (11) by Beckett, Samuel [Paperback (2011)]
Waiting for Godot (11) by Beckett, Samuel [Paperback (2011)]
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Published January 1, 2011
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About the author
Samuel Beckett
920 books6,594 followersNovels 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 postmodernists. He is one of the key in what Martin Esslin called the "theater of the absurd". His later career worked with increasing minimalism.
People awarded Samuel Barclay Beckett "for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation".
In 1984, people elected Samuel Barclay Bennett as Saoi of Aosdána.
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 postmodernists. He is one of the key in what Martin Esslin called the "theater of the absurd". His later career worked with increasing minimalism.
People awarded Samuel Barclay Beckett "for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation".
In 1984, people elected Samuel Barclay Bennett as Saoi of Aosdána.
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November 12, 2024
It's innovative, of course it is.
But it's also pure nonsense.
Which I don't have a problem with. I LOVE Kafka, and Lewis Carol. But in those cases there's always a sane character. A guide to the insane world, to show you what it's like. Someone to identify with. There is nothing like that here. It's all nonsense, so loses the dark nihilism it thinks it has.
The black comedy is funny, and the ending landed wonderfully, but all in all... It's just nonsense.
But it's also pure nonsense.
Which I don't have a problem with. I LOVE Kafka, and Lewis Carol. But in those cases there's always a sane character. A guide to the insane world, to show you what it's like. Someone to identify with. There is nothing like that here. It's all nonsense, so loses the dark nihilism it thinks it has.
The black comedy is funny, and the ending landed wonderfully, but all in all... It's just nonsense.
January 5, 2026
A tour de force of nothing!
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