“No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born,
dying is such a long tiresome business I always found. “
“Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that.
Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. “
Samuel Beckett
SAMUEL BECKETT
(APRIL 13,1906 –DECEMBER 22,1989)
was an Irish avant-garde writer, dramatist and poet, writing in English and
French.
Beckett is considered one of the last modernists; as an inspiration to many
later writers, he is sometimes considered one of the first postmodernists
He is also considered one of the key writers in what Martin Esslin called
"Theatre of the Absurd”
Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969
Beckett studied French, Italian, and English at Trinity
College, Dublin from 1923 to 1927
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 in 1929, Beckett published his first work, a critical essay
entitled "Dante... Bruno. Vico.. Joyce
Beckett's career as a writer can be roughly divided into three periods:
 his early works, up until the end of World War II in 1945;
 his middle period, stretching from 1945 until the early 1960’s, during which period he
wrote what are probably his best-known works;
 his late period, from the early 1960s until Beckett's death in 1989, during which his
works tended to become shorter and his style more minimalist.
MOST NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS
DRAMA WORKS:
POETRY COLLECTIONS:
•“ELEUTHERIA”
•“WAITING FOR GODOT”
•“HAPPY DAYS”
“WHOROSCOPE”
“COLLECTED POEMS IN ENGLISH”
“WHAT IS THE WORD”
•“MURPHY”
•“WATT”
•“MERCIER AND CAMIER”
•“MOLLOY”
•“HOW IT IS”
“MORE PRICKS THAN KICKS’
“FIRST LOVE”
“FIZZLES”
“STIRRING STILLS”
•“THE EXPELLED”
•“THE CALMATIVE”
•“THE END”
•“THE LOST ONES”
•“COMPANY”
“PROUST”
“THREE DIALOGUES”
“DISJECTA”
“DANTE…BRUNO.VICO…JOYCE”
NOVELS:
NOVELLAS:
STORIES:
NON-FICTION:
“ WAITING FOR GODOT”
oThis play is rightly or wrongly , considered to have been instrumental in the
so called “Theatre of the absurd” and deals in very black ly humorous way
with themes similar to those of the roughly contemporary existentialist
thinkers.
oThe play is a tragicomedy in two acts in wich two characters, Vladimir and
Estragon , wait for someone named Godot.
o“Waiting for Godot” is Beckett's translation of his own original French
version, “En attendant Godot”.
o The premiere was on 5 January 1953 in the Théâtre de Babylone.
CHARACTERS
Vladimir – he is also called “Didi”; he’s the one musing
on religious or philosophical matters
Estragon – he is also called “Gogo”; he “belongs to the stone”
Pozzo – he is tyrannical, cruel, focused onlyon himself
Lucky - he is Pozzo’s slave, he is constantly abused physically
and verbally.
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Hope
Search for meaning
Dependency
Monotony
Godot
 The tree
 The sky
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HaHaHa Production
PRODUCERS:
Dutu Diana a.k.a “Ciuff”
Turoczi-Fekete
Genoveva a.k.a. “Geno”
IN COLABORATION WITH:
Coman Daniel a.k.a Comanu’