Samuel Beckett

Samuel Barclay Beckett (/ˈbɛkɪt/; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French. He is widely regarded as among the most influential writers of the 20th century.

Beckett's work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human existence, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour, and became increasingly minimalist in his later career. He is considered one of the last modernist writers, and one of the key figures in what Martin Esslin called the "Theatre of the Absurd."

Beckett was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation." He was elected Saoi of Aosdána in 1984.

Biography

Early life and education

The Becketts were members of the Anglican Church of Ireland. The family home, Cooldrinagh in the Dublin suburb of Foxrock, was a large house and garden complete with tennis court built in 1903 by Samuel's father, William. The house and garden, together with the surrounding countryside where he often went walking with his father, the nearby Leopardstown Racecourse, the Foxrock railway station and Harcourt Street station at the city terminus of the line, all feature in his prose and plays.

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'I want to do plays that sock you in the gut': Naseeruddin Shah

DNA India 15 Jul 2019

On July 29, 1979, they opened their first play, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot at the newly-inaugurated Prithvi Theatre in Juhu, although they didn’t have a name in mind for their group yet....

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Wedding belles over Europe

Irish Independent 15 Jul 2019

Ashley and James in Mykonos Anthony Murphy and John Minihan at The Oriel Gallery Mary Aiken Anne Doyle. Barry Egan Twitter Email. July 15 2019 2.30 AM. 0 Comments Wedding belles over Europe ... Email ... Log In ... John, being John, a former confidante of Samuel Beckett, spoke movingly of the place photography still has for artists as they prepare for a painting....

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UK varsities offer course in creative writing beyond tradition

The Times of India 11 Jul 2019

Rohan Swamy, who changed his career path from engineering to journalism to creative writing, says studying abroad offers a clarity of vision ... I have always had an affinity for Samuel Beckett, Bram Stoker and Oscar Wilde, all of whom studied at Trinity College of Dublin, so it was natural for me to opt for it," said Rohan ... Crossroads; Urban Shots ... ....

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Reclaiming Lucia Joyce's legacy - The Lyric Feature

RTE 11 Jul 2019

Filmmakers, dramatists, and novelists have projected everything from Mills and Boon-style narratives where the real protagonists are famous male writers (Samuel Beckett, one of Lucia's many boyfriends, and her father), for whom she is just a bridge, to unfounded stories of incest and child abuse, to comic-strip extravaganzas....

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What is wrong with us? Former Conservative leadership hopeful Rory Stewart asks

New Statesman 10 Jul 2019

Britain is in crisis ... Our civil servants, diplomats and soldiers are thoughtful and skilful. Our parliament is more diverse than at any time in its history. Our economy is stable ... Or with a no-deal Brexit ... And to say, like Samuel Beckett’s Krapp, reflecting on whether he missed the excitement of his youth, “not with the fire that’s in me now” ... Credit....

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Fintan O’Toole: A spiffing tale of how Brexit was ‘spaffed’ away

The Irish Times 09 Jul 2019

The word of the moment in England seems to be “spaff” or its variants, “spaffed” and “spaffing” ... Her actual instruction is ... Was May merely the fall guy for an inevitable failure or was she utterly incompetent? The answer is of course both – May was doomed to fail but she and her government sure managed, to adapt Samuel Beckett, to fail better. ....

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The support act’s T-shirt shrank so Fatboy Slim made me a mixtape

The Irish Times 09 Jul 2019

Witnessing Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott perform at Trinity College in Dublin feels like more than a gig ... Fart by P.D. [Paul Heaton].” ... I am haunted by the fact that a BBC radio producer once objected to Samuel Beckett’s own translation into English of En Attendant Godot as “too Irish”. No wonder Beckett, when asked if he was English, replied ... ....

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‘And the animals looked from man to pig and pig to man’ – Readers’ favourite literary lines

The Irish Times 08 Jul 2019

Round and round it goes. Much like the tune of a particular song can go round and round your head, a line from a book can resonate and return to the mind again and again. When Toronto writer Anne Thériault, who tweets as @anne_theriault, asked for people’s favourite lines from books, some interesting ones emerged ... (They do not move).” Samuel Beckett ... ....

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As Motley turns 40, Ratna Pathak Shah and Naseeruddin Shah take a trip down memory lane

Indian Express 07 Jul 2019

It was while hanging out at a small coffee house in Lucknow, during the shoot of Shyam Benegal’s Junoon (1978), that actors Naseeruddin Shah and Benjamin Gilani came up with the idea of producing plays. On July 29, 1979, they opened Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot at Mumbai’s Prithvi Theatre ... Does Motley turning 40 feel like a landmark? ... NS ... NS ... NS ... ....

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Ragnar Kjartansson, Death Is Elsewhere, The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York

Forbes 06 Jul 2019

“I’m not unduly concerned with intelligibility. I hope the piece may work on the nerves of the audience, not its intellect.” Samuel Beckett ... ....

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Celebrating 50 years of mixed-up Miscellany magic

Irish Independent 06 Jul 2019

Darragh McManus Twitter. July 6 2019 2.30 AM. 0 Comments Celebrating 50 years of mixed-up Miscellany magic. Independent.ie. Sunday Miscellany (Radio 1, 9am) has long been a well-loved institution on Irish radio ... Email ... Log In ... I also enjoyed an essay by James Plunkett, broadcast in 1991, about Samuel Beckett as "artist and man" ... ....

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What Do You Get When You Cross Mark Morris With Samuel Beckett?

New York Times 05 Jul 2019

The choreographer, whose playfulness is serious, will stage three pieces by Beckett, who wears his seriousness lightly, at a festival in Northern Ireland ... ....

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The Body Lies by Jo Baker review – creative writing can be murder

The Guardian 05 Jul 2019

Longbourn , the story of the servants who are barely mentioned in Pride and Prejudice ; and A Country Road, a Tree , following Samuel Beckett’s life in wartime France. Both are brave and clever novels finding new worlds in the shadows of the literary canon ... .......