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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RTE 14 Dec 2018

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The best theater events in Santa Monica this week

ABC7 11 Dec 2018

If you're a theater fan, mark your calendars. there's plenty to do when it comes to stage performances in Santa Monica this week, from a staging of "Waiting for Godot" to a play-within-a-play ... ---. 'Waiting for Godot'. Enjoy this staging of Samuel Beckett's classic "Waiting for Godot," presented by Theatre for a Small Space ... When ... Where ... Price. $9.99 ... When....

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Santa flying over Dublin city stops commuters in their tracks

Irish Independent 09 Dec 2018

If you've spotted Santa Claus and his reindeer flying across the night's sky at the Samuel Beckett Bridge, your eyes aren't deceiving you ... If you've spotted Santa Claus and his reindeer flying across the night's sky at the Samuel Beckett Bridge, your eyes aren't deceiving you....

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Haroon Mirza: reality is somehow what we expect it to be – review

The Observer 09 Dec 2018

Mirza once made a version of Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape in which the actor and musician Richard Strange spoke some previously unrecorded lyrics by Joy Division’s Ian Curtis into the tape machine in the manner of Krapp reminiscing about his life as he approaches its end....

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Niamh Horan: 'Libraries and galleries would empty if #MeToo had its way'

Irish Independent 09 Dec 2018

James Joyce would be gone, too, given that his fiction highlights an underlying fear of women in its consistent portrayals of female characters as either virgins or whores, and Samuel Beckett would mark another casualty given that his greatest work omits women entirely - and when ......

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Bright lights, big city this Christmas with 13 radiant attractions

The Irish Times 07 Dec 2018

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This has been a year of dotting about the place. Rather like last year, then

New Statesman 05 Dec 2018

My gratitude to my hosts-cum-landlords knows no bounds ... 2018 has, rather like 2017, been a year of dotting about the place ... Without those past six months I wonder if I would have gone mad ... It was a freebie ... An ordure, from beginning to end.” (Samuel Beckett, Watt , but he’s not always that upbeat.) I’m trying to think what the highlights of 2018 were....

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Irish fishing vessel detained off coast of Co Cork

RTE 04 Dec 2018

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Irish Independent 04 Dec 2018

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Albany's William Kennedy honored in Dublin, city of literary heroes

Times Union 04 Dec 2018

Dublin, Ireland The President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, is a published poet who also writes his own speeches ... William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett and Seamus Heaney. For Ireland, that's a large number for a small republic of fewer than 5 million souls ... ....

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The Independent 04 Dec 2018

A nation’s taste in television tells you a lot about its state of mind ... That’s not the entire story of course ... 2000 ... 2001. The Office (BBC) The Office (BBC) ... With the laconic comedians playing house-mates and straight-men to one another, Peep Show was embarrassment-comedy at its finest and starkest– a buddy movie as scripted by Samuel Beckett.  ... ....

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Sally Rooney: ‘I don’t respond to authority very well’

The Guardian 02 Dec 2018

Among the advice traditionally handed out to newbie writers are two classic injunctions. write what you know, and go out into the world to find out more ... She nevertheless won a place at Trinity College Dublin, which – numbering Oscar Wilde and Samuel Beckett, not to mention Enright, among its alumni – must surely have seemed pretty prestigious ... .......

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The Guardian 01 Dec 2018

In the new issue of the literary magazine Areté, its editor, the poet Craig Raine, accords an interesting distinction to the Irish writer and Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett ... There follows a long list of medical conditions culled from Deirdre Bair’s biography of Beckett....