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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The Lighthouse, starring Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe, is easily one of the wildest films ...

Vox 21 May 2019

The Lighthouse ." ... Also gallows comedy. Also horror ... Sometimes, kind of literally ... It is somehow a whacked-out period comedy populated by saltily bearded sea dogs, a psychosexual drama about dramatically fractured psyches, a Beckett-style dive into guilt and shame, and, at moments, kind of a takeoff on Aquaman ... Samuel Beckett lurks around in the film ... ....

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Wonderful World: Guild gearing up for ‘Alice’

Citizen Tribune 20 May 2019

“Telling this tale is a real challenge on almost every level – staging, costuming, special effects. And in many ways it’s a sort of Theatre of the Absurd, with scenes very much like Samuel Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot.’ And audiences don’t usually flock to absurdity, but Alice is so well known, they are usually eager to go along.” ... .......

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New scholarship recognises ‘a giant in the world of science’

The Irish Times 20 May 2019

Science would be well advised to avoid picking fights with religion The future of food production processes ... They include WB Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett and Seamus Heaney, for literature; Seán McBride, Betty Williams, Mairead Corrigan, John Hume and David Trimble, for peace; and Ernest Walton for physics ... Exempt ...   . . ....

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The making of a literary publishing powerhouse

Irish Independent 20 May 2019

Faber and Faber logo. Paul Perry. May 20 2019 2.30 AM. 0 Comments The making of a literary publishing powerhouse ... Email ... There's a fair share of Nobel winners, including Samuel Beckett, as well as the more precarious side of the publishing business, 'cash problems', and during World War II, we read 'Russell Square survived last Saturday's raid.' ... ....

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Cotton Fingers has its Irish debut: ‘Here is a young woman and her circumstances’

The Irish Times 20 May 2019

In countless women’s wardrobes across Ireland hangs a sweatshirt emblazoned with a single word. “Repeal” ... NHS ... Amy Molloy ... I want to be a conduit for her voice ... “ ... Cotton Fingers is at the MAC, Belfast May 22nd and 23rd; The Playhouse Theatre, Derry May 24th and 25th ; Samuel Beckett Theatre, Dublin May 29th and 30th; Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray June 1st ... ....

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Cannes 2019: This year’s first five-star film, plus a lonely, whimpering Palm Dog

The Irish Times 20 May 2019

The Lighthouse . ★★★★★. Directed by Robert Eggers. Starring Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Valeriia Karaman. Directors’ Fortnight ... Then there are the complementary performances by Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson ... Dafoe and Pattinson play off each other delightfully to create a closed-in conflict that Samuel Beckett would have savoured ... Photograph ... ★★★☆☆....

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Poetry: What is the Word

The Patriotic Vanguard 19 May 2019

What is the Word. By Samuel Beckett. for Joe Chaikin ... what is the word. [from. Grand Street, Vol. 9, No. 2, Winter 1990, pp.17-18, N.Y., ISSN 0734-5496]. ....

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A course in cracking the meaning of life

Mid Day 19 May 2019

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Novel: Molloy

The Patriotic Vanguard 19 May 2019

Molloy. By Samuel Beckett. The Sucking Stones sequence. I took advantage of being at the seaside to lay in a store of sucking-stones. They were pebbles but I call them stones. Yes, on this occasion I laid in a considerable store. I distributed them equally between my four pockets, and sucked them turn and turn about ... And so on ... Good ... Watch me closely ... ....

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SoCal theater listings, May 19-26: ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ and more

The Los Angeles Times 18 May 2019

Arts & Culture Entertainment SoCal theater listings, May 19-26. ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ and more. Susan Priver and Max E ... (Michael Lamont). Capsule reviews are by Charles McNulty (C.M.), Philip Brandes (P.B.), F ... $15 ... Oscar winner Dianne Wiest stars in Samuel Beckett’s absurdist fable about an optimistic woman who is slowly sinking into the ground....

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After two Oscars and two Emmys, Dianne Wiest finds meaning in Beckett

Finger Lakes Times 17 May 2019

Samuel Beckett's 1961 absurdist classic, which began previews Wednesday at the Mark Taper Forum, was the reason for this late-morning breakfast with the two-time Oscar winner, whose high-strung vulnerability was an essential comic shade on Woody Allen's vintage filmmaking palette....

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Book Review: Bina had enough, her Novel in Warnings tells us why

Canada Dot Com 17 May 2019

Bina. A Novel in Warnings ... Knopf Canada ... Indeed, it is hard to imagine the shape of prose, poetry and drama in English without the work of authors like Joyce, Swift, Beckett, Yeats and Toibin ... Imagine, if you can, Samuel Beckett reborn as a 21st century woman and you will have an approximation of the literary pleasures on offer in a Schofield novel ... ....

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A Chat with Joan Cornellá, the Artist Who Really Should Have Been Cancelled By Now

Vice 17 May 2019

the cheerful grins ... VICE. If it were told in tweet form, your style of comedy would probably get one "cancelled" ... Joan Cornella ... Totally ... I’d like to think it may be the same reaction I get reading Samuel Beckett novels or Robert Crumb comics; the idea that we are constantly surrounded by desperation and failure, and so the best we can do is just laugh....