Samuel Beckett's mordant and exhilarating trilogy represents the high-water mark of Modernism. Written in the late 1940s at the same time asWaiting for Godot- the Absurdist drama which brought the Irish writer international fame - these three desolate monologues on the human condition turn conventional first-person narrative upside down to disturbingly surreal effect and are illuminated by flashes of black humour.In his distinctive prose, spare, neutral and elegant (he first wrote in French to better achieve this effect), Beckett shows, as no other author has ever done, human consciousness moving towards disintegration, defiantly pitting language, with all its deficiencies, against the ultimate silence.
About the Author
Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin in 1906 and graduated from Trinity College. He settled in Paris in 1937, after travels in Germany and periods of residence in London and Dublin. He remained in France during the Second World War and was active in the French Resistance. From the spring of 1946 his plays, novels, short fiction, poetry and criticism were largely written in French. With the production of En attendant Godot in Paris in 1953, Beckett s work began to achieve widespread recognition. During his subsequent career as a playwright and novelist in both French and English he redefined the possibilities of prose fiction and writing for the theatre. Samuel Beckett won the Prix Formentor in 1961 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969. He died in Paris in December 1989.
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