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Samuel Beckett, 1906-1989. Irish-born writer whose novels include Murphy and Malone Dies. Beckett is known to a wider audience for his absurdist plays, such as Waiting for Godot and Krapp's Last Tape. Beckett won the 1969 Nobel Prize for literature.
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existentialism and Samuel Beckettdied Dec. 22, 1989, Paris, France
Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it. --Samuel Beckett |
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The Irish-born playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett, b. Dublin, Apr. 13, 1906, d. Dec. 22, 1989, is best known for the absurdist drama "Waiting for Godot" (1952; Eng. trans., 1954). First performed in Paris on Jan. 5, 1953, the play received worldwide acclaim and became the first of a series of critical successes, some of them written earlier. Beckett came from a Protestant Anglo-Irish family, but much of his work was first written in French. After graduating with a degree in Romance languages from Trinity College, Dublin, Beckett spent two years (1928-30) in Paris as an exchange lecturer. Here he met James Joyce and became a member of his circle. In 1930, Beckett returned to Trinity as a lecturer. |
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