In Transition: A Paris Anthology: Writing And Art From Transition Magazine 1927-30

by Samuel Beckett

A selection of the some of the best writing to appear in 'Transition', one of the most important literary magazines of the 1920s in Paris. For its time, ‘Transition’ was a mouthpiece of high modernism unmatched by any other journal in Europe; featured here are most of the great avant-garde writers of that era, such as Gide, Joyce, Jung, Kafka, Miro, Rilke, Picasso and Gertrude Stein.

Hardcover

First published May 21, 1990

About the author

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 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.