Samuel Beckett

Beckett in 1977 Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic experiences of life, often coupled with black comedy and nonsense. His 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.

A resident of Paris for most of his adult life, Beckett wrote in both French and English. During the Second World War, Beckett was a member of the French Resistance group Gloria SMH (Réseau Gloria) and was awarded the Croix de Guerre in 1949. 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". In 1961 he shared the inaugural Prix International with Jorge Luis Borges. He was the first person to be elected Saoi of Aosdána in 1984. Provided by Wikipedia
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    Teatro reunido : Eleutheria. Esperando a Godot. Fin de partida. Pavesas. Film / by Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989

    Published 2006
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    El innombrable / by Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989

    Published 2012
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    El innombrable / by Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989

    Published 1983
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    Esperando a Godot : pieza en dos actos / by Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989

    Published 1954
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    Film / by Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989

    Published 2001
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    Malone muere / by Beckett Samuel 1906-1989

    Published 1980
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    El innombrable / by Beckett Samuel 1906-1989

    Published 1966
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    Oh les beaux jours ; Pas moi / by Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989

    Published 1974
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    En attendant Godot / by Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989

    Published 1952
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    Krapp's last tape and Embers / by Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989

    Published 1965
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    Pas ; suivi de, Quatre esquisses / by Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989

    Published 1984
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    La dernière bande ; suivi de, Cendres / by Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989

    Published 1959
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    Comédie ; et actes divers / by Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989

    Published 1972
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    Tous ceux qui tombent : pièce radiophonique / by Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989

    Published 1957
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    Catastrophe, et autres dramaticules : Cette fois, Solo, Berceuse, Impromptu d'Ohio / by Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989

    Published 1982
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    Molloy / by Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989

    Published 1951
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    Malone meurt / by Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989

    Published 1951
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    Fin de partie / by Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989

    Published 1957
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    Endgame : a play in one act / by Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989

    Published 1958
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    Relatos / by Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989

    Published 1976
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