Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett (/ˈbɛkɪt/; 13 Aprile 1906 – 22 December 1989) wis an Erse avant-garde novelist, playwricht, theatre director, an poet, who lived in Paris for maist o his adult life an wrote in baith Inglis an French.
Samuel Beckett | |
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 Beckett in 1977 | |
| Born | Samuel Barclay Beckett 13 Apryle 1906 Foxrock, Dublin, Ireland |
| Dee'd | 22 December 1989 (aged 83) Paris, Fraunce |
| Pen name | Andrew Belis[1] |
| Thrift | Novelist, playwricht, poet, theatre director, essayist |
| Naitionality | Erse |
| Alma mater | Trinity College Dublin |
| Genre | Drama, feection, poetry, screenplays, personal correspondence[2] |
| Leeterar muivement | Modrenism |
| Notable warks | Murphy (1938) Molloy (1951) Malone Dies (1951) The Unnamable (1953) Waitin for Godot (1953) Watt (1953) Endgemme (1957) Krapp's Last Tape (1958) Hou It Is (1961) |
| Notable awairds | Nobel Prize in Leeteratur 1969 Croix de Guerre 1945 |
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Beckett's wark offers a bleak, tragicomic ootleuk on human exeestence, eften coupled wi black comedy an gallaes humour, an becam increasinly meenimalist in his later career. He is conseedert ane o the last modrenist writers, an ane o the key feegurs in whit Martin Esslin cried the "Theatre of the Absurd".[3]
Beckett wis awairdit the 1969 Nobel Prize in Leeteratur "for his writin, that—in new forms for the novelle an drama—in the destitution o modren man acquires its elevation".[4] He wis electit Saoi o Aosdána in 1984.
References
eedit- ↑ "Fathoms from Anywhere – A Samuel Beckett Centenary Exhibition". Archived frae the original on 27 Mairch 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
- ↑ Muldoon, Paul (12 December 2014). "The Letters and Poems of Samuel Beckett". New York Times. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
- ↑ Cakirtas, O. Developmental Psychology Rediscovered: Negative Identity and Ego Integrity vs. Despair in Samuel Beckett's Endgame. International Journal of Language Academy.Volume 2/2 Summer 2014 p. 194/203. http://www.ijla.net/Makaleler/1990731560_13.%20.pdf Archived 2017-02-25 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "The Nobel Prize in Literature 1969". Nobelprize. 7 October 2010. Retrieved 7 October 2010.