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I'm afraid this is one of those terrible, wonderful books. It's terrible because it's the story of two people who are lost and unhappy and confused. It's wonderful because something about the story feels deeply true.
There isn't much plot. It's a play, with a simple setting, and simple dialogue. Two men are standing around, talking "to pass the time," and waiting for the arrival of the mysterious Godot. They don't seem to know why they are waiting for him; the implication is that Godot will hurt ...more
There isn't much plot. It's a play, with a simple setting, and simple dialogue. Two men are standing around, talking "to pass the time," and waiting for the arrival of the mysterious Godot. They don't seem to know why they are waiting for him; the implication is that Godot will hurt ...more
L'attesa. Che dire che non sia stato già detto su questo libro? Letto e riletto. Un libro fondamentale per comprendere il mondo moderno: l'uomo, la società, il teatro, le relazioni, la religione, l'alienazione, il mondo, la vita, l'ignoto, la disperazione, la follia, insomma c'è tutto il palcoscenico dell'uomo e del suo mondo in questo libro. Un capolavoro e basta.
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Hobos Vladimir and Estragon wait and wait, discuss suicide, religion and violence, meet the cruel Pozzo and his robotic slave Lucky, try on shoes and hats and eat vegetables.
While reading this I wondered why this play, first performed in 1952, hadn't been the catalyst to the new wave of British theater rather than Osborne's Look Back In Anger, which came four years later. Waiting For Godot was certainly a radical play for it's time, with surrealists bits of disjointed conversation, references to ...more
While reading this I wondered why this play, first performed in 1952, hadn't been the catalyst to the new wave of British theater rather than Osborne's Look Back In Anger, which came four years later. Waiting For Godot was certainly a radical play for it's time, with surrealists bits of disjointed conversation, references to ...more
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