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2. Samuel Beckett Biography Samuel Beckett biography and related resources. Samuel Barclay Beckett (possibly April 13, 1906 December 22, 1989) was an absurdist Irish playwright, novelist and poet. http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Beckett_Samuel.html

Biography Base Home Link To Us Search Biographies: Browse Biographies A B C D ... Z Samuel Beckett Biography Samuel Barclay Beckett (possibly April 13, 1906 - December 22, 1989) was an absurdist Irish playwright, novelist and poet. Although Beckett insisted he was born on Good Friday, April 13 1906, his birth certificate puts the date a month later. He studied French, Italian and English at Trinity College, Dublin from 1923 to 1927, and shortly thereafter took a teaching post in Paris. There he met James Joyce, who was to have a massive influence on him. Beckett continued his writing career while doing some secretarial duties for Joyce. In 1929 he published his first work, a critical essay defending Joyce's work. His first short story, "Assumption", was published the same year in the periodical transition, and in 1930 he won a small literary prize with his poem "Whoroscope", which largely concerns René Descartes, another major influence. He remained in France at the outbreak of World War II and following the 1940 occupation by Germany, Beckett joined the French Resistance, working as a courier. During the next two years, on several occasions he was almost caught by the Gestapo but in August of 1942 his unit was betrayed by a former Catholic priest and he and Suzanne fled south on foot to the safety of the small village of Roussillon, in the Vaucluse département on the Provence Alpes Cote d'Azur region. Although Samuel Beckett rarely spoke about his war time activities, during the two years he stayed in Roussillon, he helped the Maquis sabotage the German army in the Vaucluse mountains. While in hiding, he began work on the novel Watt which he would complete in 1945. For his efforts in fighting the German occupation, he was awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Médaille de la Résistance by the French government.

3. Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) Biography of the absurdist playwright. http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc7.htm

Samuel Beckett Samuel Beckett was born on Good Friday, April 13, 1906, near Dublin, Ireland. Raised in a middle class, Protestant home, the son of a quantity surveyor and a nurse, he was sent off at the age of 14 to attend the same school which Oscar Wilde had attended. Looking back on his childhood, he once remarked, "I had little talent for happiness." Beckett was consistent in his loneliness. The unhappy boy soon grew into an unhappy young man, often so depressed that he stayed in bed until mid afternoon. He was difficult to engage in any lengthy conversationit took hours and lots of drinks to warm him upbut the women could not resist him. The lonely young poet, however, would not allow anyone to penetrate his solitude. He once remarked, after rejecting advances from James Joyce's daughter, that he was dead and had no feelings that were human. In 1928, Samuel Beckett moved to Paris, and the city quickly won his heart. Shortly after he arrived, a mutual friend introduced him to James Joyce, and Beckett quickly became an apostle of the older writer. At the age of 23, he wrote an essay in defense of Joyce's magnum opus against the public's lazy demand for easy comprehensibility. A year later, he won his first literary prize10 pounds for a poem entitled "Whoroscope" which dealt with the philosopher Descartes meditating on the subject of time and the transiency of life. After writing a study of Proust, however, Beckett came to the conclusion that habit and routine were the "cancer of time", so he gave up his post at Trinity College and set out on a nomadic journey across Europe.

4. Samuel Beckett - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Beckett, Samuel Alternative names Beckett, Sam Short description Irish novelist, playwright and poet Date of birth 13 April 1906 Place of birth Foxrock, Dublin, Ireland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Beckett

Samuel Beckett From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search This article is about the Irish writer. For the Scott Bakula character, see Sam Beckett Samuel Beckett Born Samuel Barclay Beckett 13 April 1906 Foxrock , Dublin, Ireland Died 22 December 1989 Paris, France Pen name Andrew Belis Occupation Novelist, playwright, poet, essayist Language English, French Nationality Irish Genres Drama, fictional prose, poetry, screenplays, experimental absurdist fiction existential fiction Literary movement Modernism Notable work(s) Waiting for Godot Endgame Notable award(s) Nobel Prize in Literature Croix de Guerre Influences Dante Alighieri Arnold Geulincx James Joyce Marcel Proust ... Bishop Berkeley Influenced Edward Albee Paul Auster Alain Badiou John Banville ... Cormac McCarthy Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde writer, dramatist and poet, writing in English and French. Beckett's work offers a bleak outlook on human culture and both formally and philosophically became increasingly minimalist in his later career.

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6. Samuel Beckett: Apmonia - Author Homepage Apmonia is the Web's largest and most comprehensive general resource site for Samuel Beckett. http://www.themodernword.com/beckett/

How it is with Samuel Beckett in many parts as it is heard and said. The mediation of the heart, or, as Beckett summed up his own work, simply a stain upon silence, is what we contemplate here. What can be said to that? What can be said about that? What can be said? Sometimes laughter when it seems worth the effort. How it will be with Samuel Beckett to be heard and said. Come in and wait for it all to mean something. Headlines Sam I Am The New Yorker. Ireland Mints Beckett Coin EU Observer . Ireland puts out a Beckett Euro. Lost Samuel Beckett Play Onion Beckett Shorts Happy Days Endgame If you have any Beckett-related conferences, seminars, or other events on the horizon, please contact Apmonia for listing. Molloy Apmonia reviews this unabridged recording by Naxos. Beckett on Film 19 Beckett plays on DVD, including works directed by Neil Jordan, Atom Egoyan, and David Mamet. Samuel Beckett Studies Edited by Lois Oppenheim, part of the Palgrave Advances series. (Review now online) Well? Shall we go? (Introduction) Happiest moment of the past half million (Biography) The life of Samuel Barclay Beckett, 1906-1989.

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8. Samuel Beckett Resources And Links Essays, reviews, analyses and various other material related to the author and his works. http://www.samuel-beckett.net/

The Samuel Beckett On-Line Resources and Links Pages The farther he goes the more good it does me. I don’t want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement. He is the most courageous, remorseless writer going and the more he grinds my nose in the shit the more I am grateful to him. He’s not f-ing me about, he’s not leading me up any garden path, he’s not slipping me a wink, he’s not flogging me a remedy or a path or a revelation or a basinful of breadcrumbs, he’s not selling me anything I don’t want to buy — he doesn’t give a bollock whether I buy or not — he hasn’t got his hand over his heart. Well, I’ll buy his goods, hook, line and sinker, because he leaves no stone unturned and no maggot lonely. He brings forth a body of beauty. His work is beautiful. Harold Pinter Samuel Beckett is sui generis...He has given a voice to the decrepit and maimed and inarticulate, men and women at the end of their tether, past pose or pretense, past claim of meaningful existence. He seems to say that only there and then, as metabolism lowers, amid God’s paucity, not his plenty, can the core of the human condition be approached... Yet his musical cadences, his wrought and precise sentences, cannot help but stave off the void... Like salamanders we survive in his fire. Richard Ellman Image from Festival Paris Beckett 2006•2007 From the Literary Encyclopedia A brief introduction to the life and works of Samuel Beckett.

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10. Samuel Beckett Biography of the Irish playwright and discussion of his works. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/beckett.htm

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback TimeSearch for Books and Writers by Bamber Gascoigne Samuel (Barclay) Beckett (1906-1989) Irish novelist and playwright, one of the great names of Absurd Theatre with , although recent study regards Beckett as postmodernist. His plays are concerned with human suffering and survival, and his characters are struggling with meaninglessness and the world of the Nothing. Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. In his writings for the theater Beckett showed influence of burlesque, vaudeville, the music hall, commedia dell'arte, and the silent-film style of such figures as Keaton and Chaplin. "We all are born mad. Some remain so." (from Waiting for Godot James Joyce , taking dictation and copying down parts of what would eventually become Finnegans Wake (1939). He also translated a fragment of the book into French under Joyce's supervision. In 1931 Beckett returned to Dublin and received his M.A. in 1931. He taught French at Trinity College until 1932, when he resigned to devote his time entirely to writing. After his father died, Beckett received an annuity that enabled him to settle in London, where he underwent psychoanalysis (1935-36). As a poet Beckett made his debut in 1930 with WHOROSCOPE, a ninety-eight-line poem accompanied by seventeen footnotes. In this dramatic monologue, the protagonist, Rene Descartes, waits for his morning omelet of well-aged eggs, while meditating on the obscurity of theological mysteries, the passage of time, and the approach of death. It was followed with a collection of essays, PROUST (1931), and novel MORE PRICKS THAN KICKS (1934). From 1933 to 1936 he lived in London. In 1938 he was hospitalized from a stab would he had received from a pimp to whom he had refused to give money. Around this time he met Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil, a piano student, whom he married in 1961.

11. Beckett, Samuel Definition Of Beckett, Samuel In The Free Online Encyclopedia. Beckett, Samuel (bĕk`ĭt), 1906–89, AngloFrench playwright and novelist, b. Dublin. Beckett studied and taught in Paris before settling there permanently in 1937. http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Beckett, Samuel

12. Beckett, Samuel (Harper's Magazine) October 2010. AMERICAN ELECTRA Feminism’s Ritual Matricide By Susan Faludi. THIRTY DAYS AS A CUBAN Pinching Pesos and Dropping Pounds in Havana By Patrick Symmes http://harpers.org/subjects/SamuelBeckett

13. Universiteit Antwerpen - The Samuel Beckett Society Timeline, short biography, bibliography, and related links. http://www.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=*SBECKETT

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15. Samuel Beckett | Books | Guardian.co.uk Profile, articles, obituary, reviews and links. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jun/10/samuelbeckett

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17. Beckett On Film | Home Page Information on the author s plays and the project to film each of them. http://www.beckettonfilm.com/

Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot caused a sensation when it was first staged in 1953 and his plays still retain their power to amaze and to provoke. Beckett on Film is a unique project. For the first time, all 19 of Samuel Beckett's plays have been filmed, bringing together some of the world's most talented directors and actors. This website offers an easy-to-use guide to all his plays, and much more. To find out more about his plays, select one of the numbers 1 to 19, which list his plays in alphabetical order. The play's name will appear in the window. One click and you're there. Order Beckett on Film , now available to own exclusively on DVD with a host of additional features. This unique collector's item is presented as a high quality box set comprising four DVDs and a souvenir programme. Beckett on Film was awarded the 'Best TV Drama' award at the sixth South Bank Show Awards ceremony , which took place on Wednesday 6th February 2002 at the Savoy in London. Voted for by a panel of industry experts and key national media, the South Bank Show awards are chaired by the show's editor and presenter, Melvyn Bragg and are regarded as a celebration of artistic achievement at the highest level. After seeing off competition from Bob and Rose (Red Productions for ITV1) and Othello (LWT FOR ITV1), producers, Michael Colgan and Alan Moloney from Blue Angel Films accepted the award on behalf of all those involved in the project.

18. Samuel Beckett Resources And Links A sizable grouping of online essays, reviews, analyses and various other material related to the life and works of Samuel Beckett. http://samuel-beckett.net/

The Samuel Beckett On-Line Resources and Links Pages The farther he goes the more good it does me. I don’t want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement. He is the most courageous, remorseless writer going and the more he grinds my nose in the shit the more I am grateful to him. He’s not f-ing me about, he’s not leading me up any garden path, he’s not slipping me a wink, he’s not flogging me a remedy or a path or a revelation or a basinful of breadcrumbs, he’s not selling me anything I don’t want to buy — he doesn’t give a bollock whether I buy or not — he hasn’t got his hand over his heart. Well, I’ll buy his goods, hook, line and sinker, because he leaves no stone unturned and no maggot lonely. He brings forth a body of beauty. His work is beautiful. Harold Pinter Samuel Beckett is sui generis...He has given a voice to the decrepit and maimed and inarticulate, men and women at the end of their tether, past pose or pretense, past claim of meaningful existence. He seems to say that only there and then, as metabolism lowers, amid God’s paucity, not his plenty, can the core of the human condition be approached... Yet his musical cadences, his wrought and precise sentences, cannot help but stave off the void... Like salamanders we survive in his fire. Richard Ellman Image from Festival Paris Beckett 2006•2007 From the Literary Encyclopedia A brief introduction to the life and works of Samuel Beckett.

19. Endgame By Samuel Beckett Full e-text of Beckett s play. http://www.samuel-beckett.net/endgame.html

Endgame A PLAY IN ONE ACT By Samuel Beckett Image from Irish Repertory Theatre Bare interior. Grey Light. Left and right back, high up, two small windows, curtains drawn. Front right, a door. Hanging near door, its face to wall, a picture. Front left, touching each other, covered with an old sheet, two ashbins. Center, in an armchair on castors, covered with an old sheet, Hamm. Motionless by the door, his eyes fixed on Hamm, Clov. Very red face. Brief tableau. CLOV (fixed gaze, tonelessly) Finished, it's finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished. (Pause.) Grain upon grain, one by one, and one day, suddenly, there's a heap, a little heap, the impossible heap. (Pause.) I can't be punished any more. (Pause.) I'll go now to my kitchen, ten feet by ten feet by ten feet, and wait for him to whistle me. (Pause.) Nice dimensions, nice proportions, I'll lean on the table, and look at the wall, and wait for him to whistle me. (He remains a moment motionless, then goes out. He comes back immediately, goes to window right, takes up the ladder and carries it out. Pause. Hamm stirs. He yawns under the handkerchief. He removes the handkerchief from his face. Very red face. Glasses with black lenses.) HAMM Me— (he yawns) —to play.

20. Beckett, Samuel Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avantgarde writer, dramatist and poet, writing in English and French. http://www.kosmix.com/topic/Beckett,_Samuel

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