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Samuel Beckett

Born

in Foxrock, Dublin, Ireland

April 13, 1906

Died

December 22, 1989

Website

http://samuel-beckett.net

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Theatre, Poetry

Influences

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

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Novels of Samuel Barclay Beckett, Irish writer, include Murphy in 1938 and Malone Dies in 1951; a wider audience know his absurdist plays, such as Waiting for Godot in 1952 and Krapp's Last Tape in 1959, and he won the Nobel Prize of 1969 for literature.

Samuel Barclay Beckett, an avant-garde theater director and poet, lived in France for most of his adult life. He used English and French. His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black gallows humor.

People regard most influence of Samuel Barclay Beckett of the 20th century. James Augustine Aloysius Joyce strongly influenced him, whom people consider as one modernist. People sometimes consider him as an inspiration to many later first p ...more

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Average rating: 3.86 · 348,649 ratings · 20,659 reviews · 915 distinct works • Similar authors

	Waiting for Godot 3.84 avg rating — 221,938 ratings — published 1951 — 476 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Endgame 3.79 avg rating — 24,276 ratings — published 1957 — 97 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Endgame & Act Without Words 3.92 avg rating — 11,155 ratings — published 1957 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett, Gabriel Josipovici (Introduction) 4.28 avg rating — 9,453 ratings — published 1958 — 91 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Molloy by Samuel Beckett, Patrick Bowles (Co-translator) 4.05 avg rating — 9,843 ratings — published 1951 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Happy Days 3.84 avg rating — 7,427 ratings — published 1961 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murphy 3.80 avg rating — 6,451 ratings — published 1938 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Malone Dies 3.85 avg rating — 5,813 ratings — published 1951 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Krapp's Last Tape & Embers 4.01 avg rating — 5,046 ratings — published 1958 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Watt 3.89 avg rating — 3,749 ratings — published 1953 — 87 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Samuel Beckett

The Trilogy (3 books)
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4.08 avg rating — 28,476 ratings

The Letters (4 books)
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Martha Dow Fehsenfeld (Editor),

Dan Gunn (Editor),

Lois More Overbeck (Editor)

4.42 avg rating — 259 ratings

The Collected Works of Samuel Beckett (1 book)
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Samuel Beckett

3.75 avg rating — 120 ratings

نمایش‌نامه‌های بکت (2 books)
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4.03 avg rating — 88 ratings

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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.”
― Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho

tags: failure, perseverance

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“Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.”
― Samuel Beckett

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The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky pub. 1869, 667 pp. last read April 2016

45 votes, 20.0%

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie 162 pp., pub. 1911, Last read Nov 2014

40 votes, 17.8%

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960) 324 pp., last read May 2016

36 votes, 16.0%

The Moonstone by Wilkie CollinsPub 1868, 528 pg. Last read May 2015.

28 votes, 12.4%

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett pub. 1952, 109 pp., last read June 2018

28 votes, 12.4%

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving pub. 1920, 120 pages last read Oct 2016.

26 votes, 11.6%

Paradise Lost by John Milton 453 pages, published in 1667. Last read December 2012.

22 votes, 9.8%

225 total votes

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