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<br> <p>With a tree, a country road, and two tramps waiting haplessly for a Godot who never comes, Samuel Beckett epitomized for theatergoers around the world the at once comical and terrifying condition of being human in an uncertain universe. He would follow the groundbreaking <em>Waiting for Godot</em> with startlingly innovative plays like the drama <em>Endgame</em> as well as <em>Krapp's Last Tape</em> and <em>Happy Days.</em> Plays like these, together with poetry, short fiction, and novels, notably the mind-bending trilogy of <em>Molloy, Malone Dies,</em> and <em>The Unnamable</em>-contemplated here by the eminent novelist, poet, essayist, and biographer Anthony Cronin-would secure for the Irish-born Beckett the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969.</p> <p>The masterly work of Samuel Beckett radically changed the way we as readers and theatergoers perceive our experience in a world that more often than not painfully eludes our comprehension and articulation. His vision unsparing, shaped by bare-bones language that artistically transcends its own limitations, Beckett distinctively altered the literary landscape of the twentieth century. That magical terrain, as rich in enigma as

Author

Murray, Christopher., Beckett, Samuel

Publisher

New Island : RTÉ

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781905494088

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Biography