Writer Samuel Beckett (1906-89) is known for depicting a world of abject misery, failure, and absurdity in his many plays, novels, short stories, and poetry. Yet the despair in his work is never absolute, instead it is intertwined with black humor...
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Writer Samuel Beckett (1906-89) is known for depicting a world of abject misery, failure, and absurdity in his many plays, novels, short stories, and poetry. Yet the despair in his work is never absolute, instead it is intertwined with black humor and an indomitable will to endure--characteristics best embodied by his most famous characters, Vladimir and Estragon, in the play Waiting for Godot. Beckett himself was a supremely modern, minimalist writer who deeply distrusted biographies and resisted letting himself be pigeonholed by easy interpretation or single definition. Andrew Gibson's acces
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Contents ; Abbreviations ; Introduction: Fuck Life ; 1. Arriving at an End: Ireland, 1906-28 ; 2. Not Worth Tuppence: Paris and the Ecole Normale Superieure, 1928-30 ; 3. The Ruthless Cunning of the Sane: London, 1933-5 ; 4. Melancholia im dritten Reich: Germany, 1936-7 ; 5. ""Elimination des dechets"": The War, Resistance, Vichy France, 1939-44 ; 6. ""Indignities"": Liberation, the Purge, de Gaulle, 1994-9 ; 7. Make Sense Who May: A World at Cold War, 1950-85 ; 8. Where He Happeneed To Be: Capital ""Triumphans"", 1985-9 ; Afterword: To Begin Yet Again ; References ; Select Bibliography
