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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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Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in France for most of his adult life. He wrote in both English and French. His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour.

Beckett is widely regarded as among the most influential writers of the 20th century. Strongly influenced by James Joyce, he is considered one of the last modernists. As an inspiration to many later writers, he is also sometimes considered one of the first postmodernists. He is one of the key writers in what Martin Esslin called the "Theatre of the Absurd". His work became increasingly minimalist in his later career.

Beckett was awarded the 1969 Nobel ...more

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Average rating: 3.86 · 325,246 ratings · 17,832 reviews · 807 distinct works • Similar authors

	Waiting for Godot 3.84 avg rating — 207,175 ratings — published 1952 — 451 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 — 22,558 ratings — published 1957 — 94 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 — 10,981 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 — 9,123 ratings — published 1958 — 88 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) 4.04 avg rating — 8,944 ratings — published 1951 — 113 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 3.85 avg rating — 6,974 ratings — published 1961 — 64 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 3.82 avg rating — 6,056 ratings — published 1938 — 99 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 — 5,303 ratings — published 1951 — 113 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 4.03 avg rating — 4,667 ratings — published 1958 — 12 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 3.90 avg rating — 3,496 ratings — published 1953 — 78 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 — 26,393 ratings

The Letters (4 books)
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4.44 avg rating — 262 ratings

The Collected Works of Samuel Beckett (1 book)
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3.81 avg rating — 113 ratings

نمایش‌نامه‌های بکت (2 books)
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4.06 avg rating — 83 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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The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, 132 pages, 1952

83 votes, 25.4%

The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe, 56 pages, 1842

61 votes, 18.7%

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, 109 pages 1952

43 votes, 13.1%

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, 110 pages, 1984

36 votes, 11.0%

Summer by Edith Wharton, 127 pages, 1917

31 votes, 9.5%

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, 104 pages, 1941

26 votes, 8.0%

To Build a Fire by Jack London, 32 pages, 1903

15 votes, 4.6%

The Rocking Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence, 22 pages, 1926

13 votes, 4.0%

A Worn Path by Eudora Welty, 32 pages, 1941

13 votes, 4.0%

The Playboy of the Western World by J.M. Synge, 68 pages, 1907

6 votes, 1.8%

327 total votes

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