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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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Sam Beckett

Dr. Samuel "Sam" Beckett is a fictional character and the protagonist on the science fiction television series Quantum Leap, played by Scott Bakula.

Initially, the audience knows very little about Sam, much as Sam knows little about himself due to holes in his memory dubbed the "Swiss cheese effect."

Backstory

Sam Beckett was born at 12:30 pm EST on August 8, 1953, in Elk Ridge, Indiana to dairy farmer John Samuel Beckett and his wife Thelma Louise Beckett. As a child, he had two cats, named Donner and Blitzen, but never had a dog. Sam was a child prodigy, learning to read at age 2 and do advanced calculus in his head at age 5. By the time he was 10, he could beat a computer at chess. Sam also played piano in a concert at Carnegie Hall when he was 19, plays guitar, is a good dancer, sings tenor, and his favorite song is John Lennon's "Imagine".

Sam has a photographic memory, an IQ of 267, likes dry or light beer, and microwave popcorn. Sam also knows several kinds of martial arts and has been afraid of heights since he was 9 years old. In his teen years, Sam's family was dealt a hard blow when his older brother, Tom, was killed in Vietnam on April 8, 1970, but Sam leaps into his brother's unit and saves him on that day. Tom (Thomas Andrew Beckett) was a good athlete, an All-State basketball player, an Annapolis graduate, is a Navy SEAL Commander, and has a wife named Mary. Sam has one sister named Katie (Katherine Elizabeth Beckett), born during a flood in 1957, whose first husband was an abusive alcoholic named Chuck. They divorced and she is now married to Navy officer Lt. Jim Bonnick. They have lived in Hawaii with Thelma Beckett since 1974.

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Samuel

Samuel (/ˈsæm.juː.əl/;Hebrew: שְׁמוּאֵל, Modern Shmu'el, Tiberian Šəmûʼēl; Arabic: صموئيل Ṣamuil; Greek: Σαμουήλ Samouēl; Latin: Samvel; Strong's: Shemuwel), literally meaning "Name of God" in Hebrew, is a leader of ancient Israel in the Books of Samuel in the Hebrew Bible. He is also known as a prophet and is mentioned in the second chapter of the Qur'an, although not by name.

His status, as viewed by rabbinical literature, is that he was the last of the Hebrew Judges and the first of the major prophets who began to prophesy inside the Land of Israel. He was thus at the cusp between two eras. According to the text of the Books of Samuel, he also anointed the first two kings of the Kingdom of Israel: Saul and David.

Biblical account

Family

Samuel's mother was Hannah and his father was Elkanah. Elkanah lived at Rama-thaim in the district of Zuph. His genealogy is also found in a pedigree of the Kohathites (1 Chron. 6:3-15) and in that of Heman, his great-grandson (ib. vi. 18-22). According to the genealogical tables, Elkanah was a Levite - a fact otherwise not mentioned in the books of Samuel. The fact that Elkanah, a Levite, was denominated an Ephraimite is analogous to the designation of a Levite belonging to Judah (Judges 17:7, for example).

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Samuel (Raffi novel)

Samuel (Սամվել Samvel) is an 1886 Armenian language novel by the novelist Raffi. Considered by some critics his most successful work, the plot centres on the killing of the fourth-century Prince Vahan Mamikonian and his wife by their son Samuel.

Translations

French: Samuel, Jean-Jacques Avédissian Editions Thaddée (2010) 480 pages

References

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Samuel of Nehardea

Samuel of Nehardea or Samuel bar Abba (Hebrew: שמואל or שמואל ירחינאה) was a Jewish Talmudist who lived in Babylonia, known as an Amora of the first generation; son of Abba bar Abba and head of the Yeshiva at Nehardea. He was a teacher of halakha, judge, physician, and astronomer. He was born about 165 CE at Nehardea, in Babylonia and died there about 257 CE. As in the case of many other great men, a number of legendary stories are connected with his birth (comp. Halakot Gedolot, Giṭṭin, end; Tos. Ḳid. 73a s.v. Mai Ikka). In Talmudic texts, Samuel is frequently associated with Abba Arika, with whom he debated on many major issues. He was the teacher of Rabbi Judah ben Ezekiel. From the little biographical information gleaned from the Talmud, we know that Samuel was never ordained as a Tanna, that he was very precise with his words (Kidd. 70), and that he had a special affinity for astronomy: one of his best known sayings was that "The paths of heaven are as clear to me as the pathways of Nehardea."

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'Samuel beckett' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Banana Man: Samuel Beckett and Buster Keaton Make Film (2014)

Actors: Jay Greenberg (actor), Jacob Salas (actor), Stephen Lloyd Smith (actor), T.D. White (actor), Lou Matthews (actress), Cynthia Shaw (actress), James Richard (producer), T.D. White (producer), Don Nigro (writer), Matthew Martin Ward (composer), Joe Quartararo (director), David Mercado (editor),

Plot: This commemorative, immersive black and white film based on Don Nigro's play takes us back into the shooting of Irish literary lion Samuel Beckett's one and only film made in July of 1964, fifty years ago this year... the odd, now iconic 'FILM,' which was a cinematic treatment of the philosophic principle of George Lord Berkeley that to be is to be perceived ('esse est percipi'). It featured silent film star Buster Keaton trying to escape perception, even from himself, in one of his very last but most memorable roles. Some comedy, some drama, some history, some biography and a lot of imaginative filmmaking.

Genres: Comedy, Drama, History, Short,

Meetings with a Young Poet (2013)

Actors: Matthew Goldberg (actor), Karl Graboshas (actor), Arthur Holden (actor), Vincent Hoss-Desmarais (actor), Richard Jutras (actor), Neil Kroetsch (actor), Stephen McHattie (actor), Chimwemwe Miller (actor), Luc Morrissette (actor), Mike Paterson (actor), Marc Primeau (actor), Victoria Barkoff (actress), Maria de Medeiros (actress), Alina Gotcherian (actress), Chip Chuipka (actor),

Plot: A young poet, Paul Susser, meets his master, the great author Samuel Beckett, in a small cafe. The two men initiate a complex friendship that spans the last two decades of Beckett's life and forever changes Paul's future. After Beckett's death, Paul meets Lucia an actress who wants to play Krapp, Beckett's most autobiographical male character. By opening himself up to this woman he will finally come to terms with Backett's legacy. This feature length fiction allows for a surprisingly fresh and intimate journey which follows the crisscrossed destinies of two creators attempting to 'say the unsayable'. A study in humanity, poetry and the creative process.

Keywords: cafe, theatre
Genres: Drama,

Pitch 'n' Putt with Beckett 'n' Joyce (2001)

Actors: Martin Murphy (actor), Arthur Riordan (actor), Lucy Miller (actress), Noreen Donohoe (producer), Brendan McCarthy (producer), Donald Clarke (writer), Donald Clarke (director), Hugh Chaloner (editor),

Genres: Comedy, Short,

Quotes:

James Joyce: This is never an eight iron. It's a fucking FIVE! [to shop girl] Do you think I'm fecking blind? Giving me a five, and I the cock of the land! You are no more than nothing. And give us a pencil as well... and a couple of those tees... and a Topic. No, not a Milky Way you arse, a Topic! All fecund in its nuttiness.

Beckett, Samuel Filmography

Notfilm

2015, role: actor
Krapp's Last Tape

2014, role: writer
While Waiting for Godot

2013, role: writer
If I'm Waiting

2008, role: writer
Come and Go

2007, role: writer
Krapp's Last Tape

2007, role: writer
Krapp's Last Tape

2007, role: writer
He Joe

2005, role: writer
Ti pou

2005, role: writer
Atemzug

2004, role: writer
Cascando: On the Razor's Edge

2004, role: writer
Poslednja Krapova traka

2004, role: writer
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film

2003, role: writer
Kraj na Igrata MMI

2002, role: writer
Várjá Vlagyimir

2001, role: writer
Act Without Words II

2001, role: writer
A Piece of Monologue

2001, role: writer
Waiting for Godot

2001, role: writer
Play

2001, role: writer
Endgame

2000, role: writer
Act Without Words I

2000, role: writer
That Time

2000, role: writer
Voz

2000, role: writer
What Where

2000, role: writer
Not I

2000, role: writer
Happy Days

2000, role: writer
Ohio Impromptu

2000, role: writer
Breath

2000, role: writer
Rockaby

2000, role: writer
Footfalls

2000, role: writer
Come and Go

2000, role: writer
Catastrophe

2000, role: writer
Rough for Theatre II

2000, role: writer
Rough for Theatre I

2000, role: writer
Krapp's Last Tape

2000, role: writer
Fin de partie

1998, role: writer
Endspiel

1996, role: writer
Waiting for Beckett

1993, role: actor , character name: Himself
Beckett Directs Beckett: Endgame by Samuel Beckett

1992, role: director
Beckett Directs Beckett: Endgame by Samuel Beckett

1992, role: writer
Waiting for Godot

1991, role: writer
Schastlivye dni

1991, role: writer
Céu de Papel

1990, role: writer
Oh! Les beaux jours

1990, role: writer
Endgame by Samuel Beckett

1989, role: writer
En attendant Godot

1989, role: writer
Das letzte Band

1989, role: writer
Monaha ta synnefa

1989, role: writer
Beckett Directs Beckett: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

1988, role: writer
Spel utan ord

1988, role: writer

Famous quotes by Samuel Beckett:

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."

"I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them."

"Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness"

"We are all born mad. Some remain so."

"Words are all we have."

"What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes."

"Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better."

"It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter."

"The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh."

"Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on"

"If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window."

"I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning."