18 Books of Samuel Beckett (.ePUB)(.PDF)

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18 Books of Samuel Beckett
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Overview: SAMUEL BECKETT (1906 – 1989), an Irish avant-garde playwright, poet, novelist, theatre director, and literary translator, was unquestionably among the most influential writers of the 20th century. Best known for his critically acclaimed play WAITING FOR GODOT (1953), his literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal and tragicomic experiences of life, often coupled with black comedy and nonsense. Beckett’s work became increasingly minimalist as his career progressed, involving more aesthetic and linguistic experimentation, with techniques of stream of consciousness repetition and self-reference. 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. He 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.”

Beckett’s writing reveals his own immense learning. It is full of subtle allusions to a multitude of literary sources as well as to a number of philosophical and theological writers. The dominating influences on his thought were undoubtedly the Italian poet Dante, the French philosopher René Descartes, the 17th-century Dutch philosopher Arnold Geulincx — a pupil of Descartes who dealt with the question of how the physical and the spiritual sides of man interact — and, finally, his fellow Irishman and revered friend, James Joyce.

Of all the English-language modernists, Beckett’s work arguably represented the most sustained attack on the realist tradition. He opened up the possibility of theatre and fiction that dispense with conventional plot and the unities of time and place to focus on essential components of the human condition. He has had a wider influence on experimental writing since the 1950s, from the Beat generation to the happenings of the 1960s and after.
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