My first encounter with Beckett was when I was studying i...

My first encounter with Beckett was when I was studying in Minnesota and I acted in a student production of Krapp's Last Tape.

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Since then I must have read Waiting for Godot – of course – a hundred times. Every time I go back to Beckett he seems more subversive, not less; his works make me feel more uncomfortable than they did before. The unsettling idea, most explicit in Godot, that life is habit – that it is all just a series of motions devoid of meaning – never gets any easier.

Nick Clegg ...