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Samuel Beckett

Born

in Foxrock, Dublin, Ireland

April 13, 1906

Died

December 22, 1989

Website

http://samuel-beckett.net

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Theatre, Poetry

Influences

James Joyce, Dante Alighieri, Schopenhauer, Marcel Proust, Yeats, Sad ...more

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Novels of Samuel Barclay Beckett, Irish writer, include Murphy in 1938 and Malone Dies in 1951; a wider audience know his absurdist plays, such as Waiting for Godot in 1952 and Krapp's Last Tape in 1959, and he won the Nobel Prize of 1969 for literature.

Samuel Barclay Beckett, an avant-garde theater director and poet, lived in France for most of his adult life. He used English and French. His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black gallows humor.

People regard most influence of Samuel Barclay Beckett of the 20th century. James Augustine Aloysius Joyce strongly influenced him, whom people consider as one modernist. People sometimes consider him as an inspiration to many later first p ...more

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Average rating: 3.86 · 348,919 ratings · 20,706 reviews · 916 distinct works • Similar authors

	Waiting for Godot 3.84 avg rating — 222,112 ratings — published 1951 — 476 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Endgame 3.79 avg rating — 24,291 ratings — published 1957 — 97 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Endgame & Act Without Words 3.92 avg rating — 11,159 ratings — published 1957 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett, Gabriel Josipovici (Introduction) 4.28 avg rating — 9,456 ratings — published 1958 — 91 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Molloy by Samuel Beckett, Patrick Bowles (Co-translator) 4.05 avg rating — 9,857 ratings — published 1951 — 127 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Happy Days 3.84 avg rating — 7,433 ratings — published 1961 — 75 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murphy 3.80 avg rating — 6,454 ratings — published 1938 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Malone Dies 3.85 avg rating — 5,815 ratings — published 1951 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Krapp's Last Tape & Embers 4.01 avg rating — 5,050 ratings — published 1958 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Watt 3.89 avg rating — 3,750 ratings — published 1953 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Samuel Beckett

The Trilogy (3 books)
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4.08 avg rating — 28,495 ratings

The Letters (4 books)
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Dan Gunn (Editor),

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4.42 avg rating — 259 ratings

The Collected Works of Samuel Beckett (1 book)
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3.75 avg rating — 120 ratings

نمایش‌نامه‌های بکت (2 books)
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4.03 avg rating — 88 ratings

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“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
― Samuel Beckett

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“All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
― Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho

tags: failure, perseverance

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“Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.”
― Samuel Beckett

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Polls

February 2016 Monthly Short Story Poll

1942, The Stranger by Albert Camus, 123 pages

27 votes, 18.8%

1915, The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka, 98 pages

22 votes, 15.3%

1945, Animal Farm by George Orwell, 102 pages

20 votes, 13.9%

1952, Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, 109 pages

17 votes, 11.8%

1937, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, 103 pages

16 votes, 11.1%

1995, Morning in the Burned House by Margaret Atwood, 127 pages

9 votes, 6.3%

1871, Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, 108 pages

7 votes, 4.9%

1936, Double Indemnity by James M. Cain, 115 pages

7 votes, 4.9%

1894, A Respectable Woman by Kate Chopin, 26 pages

6 votes, 4.2%

1960, Dreamtigers by Jorge Luis Borges, 96 pages

6 votes, 4.2%

1912, Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, 96 pages

5 votes, 3.5%

1922, The Case of the Registered Letter by Auguste Groner, 64 pages

2 votes, 1.4%

144 total votes

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