61. Literary Encyclopedia: Beckett, Samuel beckett, samuel. (1906 1989). www.LitEncyc.com. Domain Literature. Novelist, Playwright, Poet. Active 1931 - 1989 in Ireland, France http://www.literarydictionary.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5161

62. Samuel Beckett Short biography; message board. http://www.littlebluelight.com/beckettframe.html

63. MSN Encarta - Beckett, Samuel Translate this page beckett, samuel. 1. Présentation. beckett, samuel (1906-1989), romancier, auteur dramatique et poète irlandais. 2. Débuts entre prose et poésie. http://fr.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761570941/Beckett_Samuel.html

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64. Warten Auf Godot Zusammenfassung des St¼cks von samuel beckett. http://ausloeschung.spirgi.com/godot.html

Inhalt Warten auf Godot Die Hauptfiguren des Stückes ergänzen sich gegenseitig und sind gleichzeitig voneinander abhängig. Wladimir ist der Nüchterne, Sachliche, Estragon behauptet von sich, ein Dichter zu sein, er ist launisch und träumt vor sich hin. Wladimir erinnert sich an Vergangenes, Estragon hat die Tendenz alles sehr schnell wieder zu vergessen. Vor allem Wladimir hofft, dass Godot kommen wird, Godots Erscheinen die Situation grundlegend ändert, währenddem Estragon bis zum Schluss skeptisch ist und sogar mehrmals den Namen "Godot" vergisst. Der Titel "Warten auf Godot" lässt vermuten, dass Godot eine abgeleitete Form des englischen Wortes "God" (Gott) ist. Godot ist die "Verkleinerungsform", die im Französischen ähnlich wie Pierrot von Pierre oder Charlot von Charles abgeleitet wird ( ). Wenn das Warten auf Godot ein Warten auf Gott ist, der die beiden Protagonisten Wladimir und Estragon erlösen soll, ergibt sich eine denkbare Erklärung: Die Menschen streben auf einen Gott hin, der sie erlöst. Die Verheissung durch den Jungen bedeutete eine mögliche Metapher für das "Bodenpersonal Gottes" ( ). Der Begriff "Gott" beinhaltet verschiedenste Implikationen und Unklarheiten. Während dem elendiglichen Warten und der ewigen Ungewissheit, bleibt einzig und allein die Hoffnung, die zeitweise in Hoffnungslosigkeit überschlägt. Warten, harren auf etwas, umfasst die Hauptthematik des Stückes und ist Teil des menschlichen Lebens. Im Leben warten wir ständig auf etwas. Godot vertritt den Gegenstand dieses Wartens, ein Ereignis, eine Person, den Tod oder eben Gott. Im 'Akt des Wartens' vergeht die Zeit. Das Leben ist dauernden Veränderungen unterworfen - "the only constant since the beginning of time is change" (

65. Beckett's Prose Fiction Discussion of the postmodernity of the author's prose fictions. By Brian Finney. http://www.csulb.edu/~bhfinney/beckett.html

Samuel Beckett's Postmodern Fictions will have been done ," becomes a unique event describing its own process of coming into being. Silence features large in his earliest fiction, "Assumption" (a short story, 1929), "Dream of Fair to Middling Women" (a novel written in 1932, published 1983), More Pricks Than Kicks (a novel, or ten connected short stories, 1934), and "A Case in a Thousand" (a short story, 1934). In "Assumption" the male protagonist is locked in a self-imposed silence. After he has met a woman who seduces him, a lifetime's suppressed scream escapes from him that sweeps her aside and leads to his death, "fused with the cosmic discord." Here in miniature is described the fate awaiting Belacqua, the anti-hero of "Dream" and More Pricks . Like his namesake in Dante's Purgatorio , Belacqua aspires to stasis and silence. Inevitably this makes him unlikable (he is constantly escaping social obligations) and uninteresting in conventional novelistic terms. As in "Assumption" sexuality is closely linked to death, figurative and literal. Sexual love means exile from the self. It is also likely to result in that unforgivable crime - bringing another unfortunate human being into this purgatorial life. So Beckett from the start offers us an anti-hero in an anti-novel that scorns the conventions of romance. Throughout both Belacqua narratives the narrator plays an obtrusive, metafictional role. He comments on his own and others' fictional structures. "The only unity in this story," he interjects, "is, please God, an involuntary unity." He reminds us (also in "Dream") of the fictional status of his invented characters: "There is no real Belacqua, it is to be hoped not indeed, there is no such person." He shares with his readers his authorial manipulations of character and event, saying of Belacqua, "What shall we make him do now, what would be the correct thing for him to think for us?" At the same time Beckett plays tricks on his readers by showing his narrator to be unreliable, inconsistent, and deceitful. By the end of

66. Samuel Beckett Life Stories, Books, & Links Two biographical essays about the playwright's life and works. Requires free registration to read full articles. http://www.todayinliterature.com/biography/samuel.beckett.asp

Friday June 4 th = registration required = premium members = electronic service TABLE OF CONTENTS Samuel Beckett - Life Stories, Books, and Links Biographical Information Stories about Samuel Beckett Selected works by this author Selected books about / related to this author ... Recommended links BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989) Category: Irish Literature Born: April 13, 1906 Foxrock, County Dublin, Ireland Died: December 22, 1989 Paris, France Related authors: Alfred Jarry J. M. Synge James Joyce Marcel Proust ... list all writers SAMUEL BECKETT - LIFE STORIES Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot On January 5th, 1953 Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot opened in Paris. Its language, said one critic, made it seem as if previous French plays "had been written with quills, not pens"; its plot, said another, was one in which "nothing happens twice." It became the most written-about play of the century, prompting Beckett to say, "Why people have to complicate a thing so simple I can't make out." Beckett and Endgame in London On this day in 1957 Samuel Beckett's Endgame was first performed, in London, in French.

67. Magazine Littéraire - Beckett, Inconnu Et Inconnaissable Translate this page beckett, inconnu et inconnaissable. Par John Montague In magazine littéraire n° 35 Décembre 1969. samuel beckett, Prix Nobel. Le http://www.magazine-litteraire.com/archives/ar_372.htm

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68. Beckett, Samuel. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001. beckett, samuel. (b k´ t) (KEY) , 1906–89, AngloFrench playwright and novelist, b. Dublin. http://www.bartleby.com/65/be/Beckett.html

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69. Literary Encyclopedia Samuel Beckett Biography, literary impact, and works. http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5161

70. Beckett, Samuel. The New Dictionary Of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002 2002. beckett, samuel. An Irishborn twentieth-century French author who is best known for the play Waiting for Godot. (See also theater of the absurd.), 1. http://www.bartleby.com/59/5/beckettsamue.html

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71. Samuel Beckett, Une Biographie Succinte, Club Des Poètes http://www.franceweb.fr/poesie/beckett2.htm

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72. BBC - Books - Author Profile For Samuel Beckett BBC profile and photograph of the Irish writer. http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/books/author/beckett/

@import url('/includes/tbenh.css') ; Home TV Radio Talk ... A-Z Index SATURDAY 5th June 2004 Text only BBC Homepage Arts Books ... Help Like this page? Send it to a friend! surnames.. A to B C to E F to I J to L M to O P to R S to T U to Z Samuel Beckett Born: Dublin, in April 1906. Died: December 1989, Paris Page 1 Important works: Samuel Beckett's most famous plays are Wating For Godot (1955) and Endgame His early poetry and first two novels were written in English: Murphy (1938) and Watt (1945, published 1953). The trilogy, Molloy Malone Dies (1951) and The Unnameable (1953) were written in French. Waiting for Godot (written in 1953 and produced in Britain in 1955) made him famous. It introduced a philosophical dimension to post-war theatre that intrigued and bemused audiences. Beckett himself regarded it as a liberating diversion from the prose he was writing at the time and said years later that it had saved his sanity. Later works include Happy Days Not I (1973) and Ill Seen Ill Said (1981). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. Page 1 Bertolt Brecht Jean Genet Jean Paul Sartre Listen to writers talk about their work in BBC Four's Audio Interviews Rebecca Stratford tells Radio 4 how she produced Samuel Beckett's little known short story

73. Samuel Beckett Translate this page Die Krefelder Referate Homepage www.krref.krefeld.schulen.net. samuel beckett Der irisch-englische Dramatiker samuel Barclay beckett wurde am 13.4. http://www.krref.krefeld.schulen.net/biographien/b0138t00.htm

Kreativ - witzig - einfallsreich ? Druck Dein eigenes Shirt beim Schultreff-Team ! Die Krefelder Referate Homepage www.krref.krefeld.schulen.net Samuel Beckett Literatur: Die große Bertelsmann Lexikothek, Band 2„Das Wissen des 20. Jhs." Lexikon„Warten auf Godot" Samuel BeckettKillinger Litertarurkunde

74. The Beckett International Foundation Administers and coordinates the academic and bibliographical resources of Reading University Library's samuel beckett Collection. http://www.library.rdg.ac.uk/colls/bif/index.html

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75. Glossary: Beckett, Samuel Glossary entry for beckett, samuel. He died in Paris on Dec. 22, 1989. More information available at The samuel beckett Endpage. http://www.harbour.sfu.ca/~hayward/van/glossary/beckett.html

Glossary entry for Beckett, Samuel Early in World War II, during the German occupation of France, the Gestapo discovered Beckett's activities in connection with the French resistance movement, and he was compelled to flee to the unoccupied zone about 1942. He found sanctuary at Roussillon in the Vaucluse department. After the war he returned to Paris and began writing in earnest. Although Waiting for Godot brought him international fame after 1952, as translations and productions of the play proliferated throughout the world, he continued to lead an utterly secluded life. He was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in literature. He died in Paris on Dec. 22, 1989. More information available at: The Samuel Beckett Endpage Van references in: "Too Long In Exile" (on Too Long In Exile Part of The Van Morrison Website

76. Beckett, Samuel beckett, samuel, bek it Pronunciation Key. beckett, samuel , 1906–89, AngloFrench playwright and novelist, b. Dublin. Illustrating samuel beckett. http://www.infoplease.com/ce5/CE005123.html

HOTWORDS CITE PRINT EMAIL in All Infoplease Almanacs Biographies Dictionary Encyclopedia Home Almanacs Atlas Dictionary ... D-Day Infoplease Tools Periodic Table Conversion Tool Perpetual Calendar Year by Year ... Site Map Also from Infoplease Search Infoplease Info search tips Search Biographies Bio search tips Encyclopedia Beckett, Samuel Pronunciation Key Beckett, Samuel , Anglo-French playwright and novelist, b. Dublin. Beckett studied and taught in Paris before settling there permanently in 1937. He wrote primarily in French, frequently translating his works into English himself. His first published novel, Murphy (1938), typifies his later works by eliminating the traditional elements of plot, character, and setting. Instead, he presents the experience of waiting and struggling with a pervading sense of futility. The anguish of persisting in a meaningless world is intensified in Beckett's subsequent novels including Watt Molloy Malone Dies (1951), and The Unnamable How It Is (1961); and The Lost Ones (1972). In his theater of the absurd, Beckett combined poignant humor with an overwhelming sense of anguish and loss. Best known and most controversial of his dramas are Waiting for Godot (1952) and Endgame (1957), which have been performed throughout the world. Beckett was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature.

77. Waiting For Godot A synopsis and analysis of the play by samuel beckett. http://www.theatrehistory.com/french/beckett002.html

WAITING FOR GODOT A synopsis and analysis of the play by Samuel Beckett This document was originally published in Dionysus in Paris . Wallace Fowlie. New York: Meridian Books, Inc., 1960. p. 210-214. Purchase Waiting for Godot T HE plot of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot is simple to relate. Two tramps are waiting by a sickly looking tree for the arrival of M. Godot. They quarrel, make up, contemplate suicide, try to sleep, eat a carrot and gnaw on some chicken bones. Two other characters appear, a master and a slave, who perform a grotesque scene in the middle of the play. A young boy arrives to say that M. Godot will not come today, but that he will come tomorrow. The play is a development of the title, Waiting for Godot . He does not come and the two tramps resume their vigil by the tree, which between the first and second day has sprouted a few leaves, the only symbol of a possible order in a thoroughly alienated world. The two tramps of Beckett, in their total disposition and in their antics with hats and tight shoes, are reminiscent of Chaplin and the American burlesque comedy team. Pozzo and Lucky, the master and slave, are half vaudeville characters and half marionettes. The purely comic aspect of the play involves traditional routines that come from the entire history of farce, from the

78. Samuel Beckett beckett, samuel (1906 1989). a web guide to samuel beckett from literaryhistory.com. Search Elibrary for published articles about samuel beckett. http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/Beckett.htm

BECKETT, SAMUEL (1906 - 1989) a web guide to Samuel Beckett from literaryhistory.com main page 20th century outline authors, alphabetical 19th century authors ... extended search General Articles A substantial introduction to Beckett by scholar Paul Davies, from the Literary Encyclopedia. http://www.english.fsu.edu/jobs/num1112/006_BURROWS.PDF Wonderful interview with Rachel Burrows, who experienced Beckett's teaching in the 1930's, on Beckett's tastes and fascinations as a teacher, in Journal of Beckett Studies, 1989. http://www.english.fsu.edu/jobs/num1112/053_MARCULESCU.PDF Academic article on Beckett's exploration of the philosophical notion of solipsism, not as a theme, but a proposition to be played with and ultimately deconstructed. "Beckett and the Temptation of Solipsism," by Ileana Marculescu in Journal of Beckett Studies http://www.english.fsu.edu/jobs/num1112/091_HORNUNG.PDF An analytical article discusses the trend towards autobiographical writing in contemporary American and European fiction, with its simultaneous nostalgia for and denial of coherence, as exemplified in Beckett and two other writers. "Fantasies of an Autobiographical Self: Thomas Bernhard, Raymond Federman, Samuel Beckett," by Alfred Hornung in Journal of Beckett Studies http://www.english.fsu.edu/jobs/num1112/109_DOLL.pdf

79. Endgame: A Synopsis And Analysis Of The Play By Samuel Beckett A synopsis and analysis of the play by samuel beckett. http://www.theatrehistory.com/french/beckett003.html

ENDGAME A synopsis and analysis of the play by Samuel Beckett This document was originally published in Dionysus in Paris . Wallace Fowlie. New York: Meridian Books, Inc., 1960. p. 214-6. Purchase Endgame S AMUEL Beckett's second play, Endgame The title of the play is a term used in chess to designate the third and final part of the game. This technical meaning is not recognized by most of the French. It was perhaps chosen for its indeterminateness, for its capacity to designate the end of many things, the end of life itself. The approach to "the end" is indeed the principal theme of all of Beckett's writings. Two of the characters, Nagg and Nell, live in ash cans, the covers of which they raise from time to time in order to speak. But most of the dialogue is carried on between their son, Hamm, who is paralytic, blind, and confined to a wheelchair, and his male attendant, Clov. Even more than in the first play ( Waiting for Godot ), Beckett in

80. Samuel Beckett. Biography And Complete Works HOME. Author beckett, samuel, en español Versión en español. Anthology of Mexican Poetry, translated by samuel beckett, compiled by Octavio Paz. http://www.booksfactory.com/writers/beckett.htm

Search for a writer: (enter last name) Or browse our list: A B C D ... Z Want to be listed here? Submit your data and get published! Search Now: HOME Author: Beckett, Samuel Date and Place of birth: b. April 13, 1906, Foxrock, Dublin, Ireland d. December 22, 1989, Paris, France Life and Works: Samuel Barclay Beckett was born at Cooldrinach in Foxrock, County Dublin, on 13 April 1906. He was the second of two sons of a middle-class Protestant couple. He studied at Earlsfort House in Dublin, and then at Portora Royal School in Enniskillen where he first began to learn French, one of the two languages in which he would write. Beckett's mother, May, also a subject of dispute among biographers, was neurotic at least and at worst bigoted, abusive, and cruel. Merely to have been born may have been the Original Sin for Beckett - "astride of a grave and a difficult birth," as a character has it in Waiting for Godot. Beckett, who began studying French in kindergarten, excelled in modern languages and athletics in English-style Protestant "public" schools and eventually at Trinity College in Dublin. He taught languages in Paris and at Trinity, but eventually quit, later complaining of moon-faced students and the absurdity of teaching what he claimed he did not know. At 17 he entered Trinity College, choosing French and Italian as his subjects. Beckett enjoyed the vibrant theater scene of post-independence Dublin, preferring revivals of J.M. Synge plays. Moreover, he had the opportunity to watch American films and discover the silent comedies of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin that would crucially influence his interest in the vaudevillian tramp.

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