Samuel Beckett

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 …

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.

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.

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 …

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 The book was Beckett's second published prose work after the short-story collection More Pricks than Kicks and his unpublished first novel Dream of Fair to Middling …

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 …

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 …