Beckett

Definition:
                an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French

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• Beckett would see his name become synonymous with a sort of existential bleakness that fails to convey the humor and hope in his work.
• The Nobel Prize in Literature 1969 was awarded to Samuel Beckett.
Beckett wrote the quote "Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss."

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           NY Times
           Britannica


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                 Beckett was a 20th Century Irish novelist and poet who would become synonymous with existentialism.  He is said to have written the most influential play in the past 100 years with "Waiting for Godot." Although he is known as being bleak, his plays and other written works inspire and show hope and humor.


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