Information and Guide to Anglo-Irish writer Samuel Beckett created and maintained in Dublin, Ireland
Beckett, Samuel. (1906 - 1989)
Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Critic, Irishman
A Samuel Beckett Resources website related to the life and literature of Samuel Beckett with listings of Beckett plays, poems and prose online in order to commemorate the centenary of Samuel Beckett's birth and provide information for the Samuel Beckett centenary festival in Dublin. It will have a specific interest in the Dublin aspect of the Irish playwright.
Well, I suppose it is the Protestant thing to do.
- All That Fall
Samuel Barclay Beckett was born in Foxrock, Dublin, Ireland.
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1969, "for his writing, which - in new forms for the novel and drama - in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation", details of which can be seen here
His play Waiting for Godot was the turning point in his work when it was a huge success after its first public performance in 1953.
Samuel Beckett died on December 22, 1989 and was buried in Montparnasse cemetary, Paris, France.
His work features aspects of both Modernism and Postmodern as they illustratre the unique features of late 20th century and early 21st century life, while rejecting the conventions of the 19th century and its morality.
Works:
Listen to Samuel Beckett Samuel Beckett
our exagmination round his factification for incamination of work in progress, 1929
- "...absolute absence of the absolute..."
Whoroscope, 1930
- "And grant me my second starless inscrutable hour."
Proust, 1931
- "The pendulum oscillates between these two terms: Suffering -- that opens a window on the real and is the main condition of the artistic experience, and Boredom -- with its host of top-hatted and hygienic ministers, Boredom that must be considered as the most tolerable because the most durable of human evils."
More Pricks then Kicks, 1934
- "His plan therefore was not to refuse admission to the idea, but to keep it at bay until his mind was ready to receive it. Then let it in and pulverise it. Obliterate the bastard"
Echo's Bones, 1935
- "Asylum under my tread all this day their muffled revels as the flesh falls breaking without fear or favor wind the gantelope of sense and nonsense run taken by the maggots for what they are"
Murphy, 1938
- "The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new."
To Listen to excerpts from Murphy
Molloy, 1951.
"This time, then once more I think, then perhaps a last time, then I think it'll be over, with that world too."
Reading Beckett's Fiction, R.M.Berry
Excerpts from Molloy
Malone Meurt, 1951. - Malone Dies
"I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps."
L'Innommable, 1953 - The Unnamable
Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.
En Attendant Godot, 1952 - Waiting for Godot - Godota odotellessa / Huomenna h�n tulee
"He puts the bones in his pocket"
Watt, 1953
"As for his feet"
Stories and Text for Nothing - Nouvelles et Textes Pour Rien, 1955
Endgame - Fin de Partie , 1957
The Unnameable, 1958
"Where I am, I don't Know, I'll never Know, in the silence you donm't knoe, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on".
Contact details for the Estate of Samuel Beckett:
The Estate of Samuel Beckett
c/o Curtis Brown
Haymarket House
28/29 Haymarket
London
SW1Y 4SP
United Kingdom
Fax: +44 (020) 7396 0110
Email: beckettestate@curtisbrown.co.uk
