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Definition of samuel beckett in French English dictionary
- Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish born writer and dramatist who lived in France
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Definition of samuel beckett in English English dictionary
- (1906-1989) Irish born writer and dramatist who lived in France
- an Irish writer of plays, novels, and poetry who lived in France and is famous for his play Waiting for Godot (1906-89). born April 13?, 1906, Foxrock, Co. Dublin, Ire. died Dec. 22, 1989, Paris, France Irish playwright. After studying in Ireland and traveling, he settled in Paris in 1937. During World War II he supported himself as a farmworker and joined the underground resistance. In the postwar years he wrote, in French, the narrative trilogy Molloy (1951), Malone Dies (1951), and The Unnamable (1953). His play Waiting for Godot (1952) was an immediate success in Paris and gained worldwide acclaim when he translated it into English. Marked by minimal plot and action, existentialist ideas, and humour, it typifies the Theatre of the Absurd. His later plays, also sparsely staged, abstract works that deal with the mystery and despair of human existence, include Endgame (1957), Krapp's Last Tape (1958), and Happy Days (1961). In 1969 he was awarded the Nobel Prize
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Definition of samuel beckett in English French dictionary
- Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), écrivain, dramaturge et poète irlandais qui vivait en France