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Samuel Beckett


Born
in Foxrock (Dublin), Ireland
April 13, 1906

Died
December 22, 1989

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Genre
Literature & Fiction, Theatre, Poetry

Influences
James Joyce, Dante Alighieri, Schopenhauer, Marcel Proust, Yeats, Sad ...more


Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in France for most of his adult life. He wrote in both English and French. His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour.

Beckett is widely regarded as among the most influential writers of the 20th century. Strongly influenced by James Joyce, he is considered one of the last modernists. As an inspiration to many later writers, he is also sometimes considered one of the first postmodernists. He is one of the key writers in what Martin Esslin called the "Theatre of the Absurd". His work became increasingly minimalist in his later career.

Beckett was awarded the 1969 Nobel ...more

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Waiting for Godot
3.84 avg rating — 202,326 ratings — published 1952 — 425 editions
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Endgame
3.79 avg rating — 21,988 ratings — published 1957 — 93 editions
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Endgame & Act Without Words
3.92 avg rating — 10,909 ratings — published 1957 — 29 editions
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4.28 avg rating — 8,995 ratings — published 1958 — 80 editions
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4.04 avg rating — 8,632 ratings — published 1951 — 129 editions
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Happy Days
3.87 avg rating — 6,639 ratings — published 1961 — 57 editions
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Murphy
3.82 avg rating — 5,929 ratings — published 1938 — 97 editions
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Malone Dies
3.85 avg rating — 5,105 ratings — published 1951 — 112 editions
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Krapp's Last Tape & Embers
4.03 avg rating — 4,599 ratings — published 1958 — 12 editions
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Watt
3.89 avg rating — 3,407 ratings — published 1953 — 74 editions
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“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
― Samuel Beckett
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“All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
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“Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.”
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May 2024 Revisit the Shelf Poll

 
  67 votes, 24.8%

Watership Down by Richard Adams (1972) 478 pages
 
  64 votes, 23.7%

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (1952) 109 pages
 
  44 votes, 16.3%

Candide by Voltaire (1759) 129 pages
 
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  26 votes, 9.6%

Light in August by William Faulkner (1932) 507 pages
 
  26 votes, 9.6%

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