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Écrit en français dans les années 1950. Première publication (en français), dans X, A Quarterly Review, I, novembre 1959. Paru aux Éditions de Minuit en 1988.
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24 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1959
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Samuel Beckett
915 books6,551 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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March 8, 2023
Tijd vervliegt op een date(?) met een onware liefde het enige dat resteert is het beeld
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December 31, 2019به جز یک جایی در متن که حالت خوابیدن در آغوش همراهش رو داشت توضیح میداد میتونم بگم بقیه رو به معنای واقعی کلمه ی 'هیچی' نفهمیدم.
January 14, 2024
A pithy work to which I must return.
February 4, 2025
Un récit composé d'une phrase de plusieurs pages sans ponctuation. On lit l'image non pour l'histoire mais pour l'expérience d'un rythme.
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