Irish playwright, novelist and poet (1906 to 1989) whose work features bleak, impersonal, tragicomic episodes of life. His 1953 play Waiting for Godot is regarded as one of the most influential works of twentieth century theatre.
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Written in both English and French, his literary and theatrical works feature bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic episodes of life, coupled with black comedy and literary nonsense.
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Samuel Barclay Beckett ( ; 13 April 1906 - 22 December 1989) was an Irish playwright, novelist, and poet. Written in both English and French, his literary and theatrical works feature bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic episodes of life, coupled with black comedy and literary nonsense.
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Beckett is considered to be one of the last modernist writers and a key figure in what Martin Esslin called the "Theatre of the Absurd." He died in 1989 and was buried at the Cimetière du Montparnasse.
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In 1929, Beckett published his first work, a critical essay entitled Dante…Bruno.Vico…Joyce.
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