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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 · 348,434 ratings · 20,633 reviews · 915 distinct works • Similar authors
Waiting for Godot
3.84 avg rating — 221,785 ratings — published 1951 — 2 editions
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Endgame
3.79 avg rating — 24,265 ratings — published 1957 — 5 editions
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Endgame & Act Without Words
3.92 avg rating — 11,154 ratings — published 1957 — 41 editions
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4.05 avg rating — 9,838 ratings — published 1951 — 7 editions
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Happy Days
3.84 avg rating — 7,425 ratings — published 1961 — 2 editions
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Murphy
3.80 avg rating — 6,448 ratings — published 1938 — 5 editions
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Malone Dies
3.85 avg rating — 5,809 ratings — published 1951 — 122 editions
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Krapp's Last Tape & Embers
4.01 avg rating — 5,047 ratings — published 1958 — 29 editions
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Watt
3.89 avg rating — 3,745 ratings — published 1953 — 2 editions
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Series by Samuel Beckett

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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

March 2018 Short Story Poll

 
  64 votes, 18.8%

 
  35 votes, 10.3%

Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving, 25 pages, 1818
 
  34 votes, 10.0%

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, 101 pages, 1952
 
  34 votes, 10.0%

White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 82 pages, 1848
 
  32 votes, 9.4%

 
  25 votes, 7.4%

 
  21 votes, 6.2%

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, 104 pages, 1941
 
  20 votes, 5.9%

The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin, 32 pages, 1894
 
  16 votes, 4.7%

Xingu by Edith Wharton, 48 pages, 1916
 
  14 votes, 4.1%

 
  13 votes, 3.8%

 
  11 votes, 3.2%

To Build a Fire by Jack London, 32 pages, 1902
 
  11 votes, 3.2%

 
  10 votes, 2.9%

340 total votes
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