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Samuel Beckett is one of the most erudite writers of the twentieth century, who brought to the theatre and the novel an acute sense of the absurdity of human existence, meaning human’s desperate search for understanding their individual isolation. He was a remarkable writer who won international fame; his works have been translated into [...]

Samuel Beckett belongs to the Modernist period of creation. Although he is an Irish writer, he spent most of his life in France and all of his major works were originally written in French- a curious phenomenon since Beckett’s mother tongue was accepted as international language of the twentieth century. He is usually found [...]

Samuel Beckett found his own voice after the Second World War, when he made the original synthesis of Proust’s explorations of memory, Joyce’s linguistic virtuosity, Surrealists’ interest in dream logic and Eliot’s and Kafka’s profound sense of sterility and blockage. These writers were on the scene of literature in 1928, when Beckett arrived [...]

Samuel Beckett found his own voice after the Second World War, when he made the original synthesis of Proust’s explorations of memory, Joyce’s linguistic virtuosity, Surrealists’ interest in dream logic and Eliot’s and Kafka’s profound sense of sterility and blockage. These writers were on the scene of literature in 1928, when Beckett arrived [...]