Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was 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. His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour .
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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. Go to Quote / Comment
All life long, the same questions, the same answers. Go to Quote / Comment
The chartered recountants take the thing to pieces and put it together again. They enjoy it. The artist takes it to pieces and makes a new thi... Go to Quote / Comment
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now. Go to Quote / Comment
An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage. Go to Quote / Comment