Samuel Beckett

Huomenna hän tulee on Samuel Beckettin kaksinäytöksinen tragikomedia vuodelta 1949. Beckett kirjoitti näytelmän alkujaan ranskaksi, ja hänen oma englanninnoksensa Waiting for Godot ilmestyi 1952. Näytelmä nosti Beckettin kansainväliseen maineeseen ja merkittäväksi absurdin teatterin nimeksi. Se esitettiin Théâtre de …

Leikin loppu on Lontoon Royal Court Theatressa 3. huhtikuuta 1957 ensi kertaa esitetty yksinäytöksinen näytelmä. Sen kirjoitti ranskaksi Samuel Beckett, joka teki itse myös teoksensa englanninkielisen käännöksen. Absurdin näytelmän päähenkilöt ovat sokea Hamm ja häntä palveleva Clov. Muissa rooleissa ovat Hammin …

Murphy, first published in 1938, is an avant-garde novel as well as the third work of prose fiction by the Irish author and dramatist Samuel Beckett. The book was Beckett's second published prose work after the short-story collection More Pricks than Kicks and his unpublished first novel Dream of Fair to Middling …

Krapp's Last Tape is a one-act play, in English, by Samuel Beckett. With a cast of one man, it was written for Northern Irish actor Patrick Magee and first titled "Magee monologue". It was inspired by Beckett's experience of listening to Magee reading extracts from Molloy and From an Abandoned Work on the BBC Third …

Watt was Samuel Beckett's second published novel in English, largely written on the run in the south of France during the Second World War and published by Maurice Girodias's Olympia Press in 1953. A French translation followed in 1968.

Molloy is a novel by Samuel Beckett written in French and first published by Paris-based Les Éditions de Minuit in 1951. The English translation, published in 1955, is by Beckett and Patrick Bowles.

Malone Dies is a novel by Samuel Beckett. It was first published in 1951, in French, as Malone meurt, and later translated into English by the author. The second novel in Beckett's "Trilogy". Along with the other two novels that compose the trilogy, it marked the beginning of Beckett's most significant writing, where …

"Happy Days" was written in 1960 and first produced in London at the Royal Court Theatre in November 1962. Winnie: [ ...] Well anyway - this man Shower - or Cooker - no matter - and the woman - hand in hand - in the other hands bags - kind of big brown grips - standing there gaping at me [...] What's she doing? he …

The Complete Short Prose 1929–1989 is a collection which includes all of Samuel Beckett's works written in prose, with the exception of his novels, novellas, and More Pricks Than Kicks which is considered "as much a novel as a collection of stories". The book was edited by S. E. Gontarski and published by Grove Press …

Samuel Beckett, the great minimalist master and winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature, has produced some of his most widely praised work for the stage in the form of the shorter play. This complete and definitive collection of twenty-five plays and "playlets" includes Beckett's celebrated Krapp's Last Tape, …