Pagine1906–1989 · Foxrock, Dublin, Ireland · also known as Beckett
Samuel Beckett was Joyce’s young assistant in Paris, served in the French Resistance, and wrote mostly in French. Waiting for Godot (1953), in which two tramps wait for someone who never comes, changed theatre forever; Endgame and Krapp’s Last Tape followed. Bleak and very funny, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969.
Begin with Waiting for Godot.
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Samuel Beckett was Joyce’s young assistant in Paris, served in the French Resistance, and wrote mostly in French. Waiting for Godot (1953), in which two tramps wait for someone who never comes, changed theatre forever; Endgame and Krapp’s Last Tape followed.
Waiting for Godot is usually considered Samuel Beckett’s best-known work, followed by Endgame, Murphy.
Most readers start with Waiting for Godot.
Both refer to the same writer.
Samuel Beckett’s books are still under copyright, so they are not free to download, but many can be borrowed free from your public library or Open Library — we link to them below.