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Samuel Beckett


Born
in Foxrock, Dublin, Ireland
April 13, 1906

Died
December 22, 1989

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Genre
Literature & Fiction, Theatre, Poetry

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


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 · 361,151 ratings · 22,386 reviews · 959 distinct works • Similar authors
Waiting for Godot
3.84 avg rating — 229,267 ratings — published 1952 — 12 editions
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Endgame
3.79 avg rating — 25,274 ratings — published 1957 — 99 editions
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Endgame & Act Without Words
3.92 avg rating — 11,332 ratings — published 1957 — 41 editions
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Molloy
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4.05 avg rating — 10,476 ratings — published 1951 — 2 editions
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4.28 avg rating — 9,645 ratings — published 1958 — 41 editions
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Happy Days
3.83 avg rating — 7,690 ratings — published 1961 — 7 editions
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Murphy
3.80 avg rating — 6,720 ratings — published 1938 — 110 editions
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Malone Dies
3.85 avg rating — 6,151 ratings — published 1951 — 122 editions
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Krapp's Last Tape & Embers
4.01 avg rating — 5,234 ratings — published 1958 — 29 editions
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Watt
3.88 avg rating — 3,868 ratings — published 1953 — 2 editions
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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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Polls

February 2016 Monthly Short Story Poll

1942, The Stranger by Albert Camus, 123 pages
 
  27 votes, 18.9%

1915, The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka, 98 pages
 
  21 votes, 14.7%

1945, Animal Farm by George Orwell, 102 pages
 
  20 votes, 14.0%

1952, Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, 109 pages
 
  17 votes, 11.9%

1937, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, 103 pages
 
  16 votes, 11.2%

 
  9 votes, 6.3%

1871, Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, 108 pages
 
  7 votes, 4.9%

1936, Double Indemnity by James M. Cain, 115 pages
 
  7 votes, 4.9%

1894, A Respectable Woman by Kate Chopin, 26 pages
 
  6 votes, 4.2%

1960, Dreamtigers by Jorge Luis Borges, 96 pages
 
  6 votes, 4.2%

1912, Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, 96 pages
 
  5 votes, 3.5%

 
  2 votes, 1.4%

143 total votes
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