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Since his death in 1989, it has become difficult to imagine that Samuel Beckett was once a virtually unknown writer. Born in a 1906 into a respectable middle-class family in a Dublin suburb, he came late to fame in the early 1950s wiht the groundbreaking play, Waiting for Godot. Since Godot, his writing has been translated, published, and staged throughout the world. This highly readable and original narrative account offers a new opportunity to engage with a towering figure of Irish, and world, literature. It discusses his most popular work in poetry, drama, prose, radio and television along…
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1 edition- Other · English · 2015Irish Academic Press · 226 pages · 9780716532910
Literary styleCriticism and interpretationIrish AuthorsBiographyFrench AuthorsBeckett, samuel, 1906-1989Drama, technique