Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett was one of the most profoundly original writers of the 20th century. He gave expression to the anguish and isolation of the individual consciousness with a purity and minimalism that have altered the shape of world litera...
Mysteriously imprisoned, Molloy disappears while looking for his mother; a dying man looks back on his life; and, a nameless individual ponders his existence
Murphy , Samuel Beckett's first published novel, is set in London and Dublin, during the first decades of the Irish Republic. The title character loves Celia in a "striking case of love requited" but must first establish himself in London...
Subtitled âA tragicomedy in two actsâ, and famously described by the Irish critic Vivien Mercier as a play in which ânothinghappens, twiceâ, En attendant Godot was first performed...
Few works of contemporary literature are so universally acclaimed as central to our understanding of the human experience as Nobel Prize winner Samuel BeckettÃs famous trilogy. Molloy , the first of these masterpieces, appeared in French in...
Written in Roussillon during World War Two, while Samuel Beckett was hiding from the Gestapo, 'Watt' was first published in 1953. Beckett acknowledged that this comic novel unlike any other 'has its place in the series' - those masterpieces...
The letters written by Samuel Beckett between 1929 and 1940 provide a vivid and personal view of Western Europe in the 1930s, and mark the gradual emergence of Beckett's unique voice and sensibility. The Cambridge University Press edition of The Letters...
Estragon und Wladimir stehen neben einem Baum an einer Landstraße - und warten auf "Godot". Sie wissen nichts über ihn, sind sich auch nicht sicher, ob heute der verabredete Tag ist. Samuel Beckett demonstriert auf tragikomische Weise...