Waiting for Godot

Informationen zum Autor Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin in 1906 and graduated from Trinity College. He settled in Paris in 1937, after travels in Germany and periods of residence in London and Dublin. He remained in France during the Second World War and was active in the French Resistance. From the spring of 1946 his plays, novels, short fiction, poetry and criticism were largely written in French. With the production of En attendant Godot in Paris in 1953, Beckett's work began to achieve widespread recognition. During his subsequent career as a playwright and novelist in both French and English he redefined the possibilities of prose fiction and writing for the theatre. Samuel Beckett won the Prix Formentor in 1961 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969. He died in Paris in December 1989. Klappentext 2 classic Beckett plays, with new introductions and notes. Republished as part of the 80th Anniversary of Faber celebrations, and a project to publish edited and corrected texts of all of his works. Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett is a wonderfully surreal and thought provoking black comedy from the winner of the Nobel Prize and author of plays such as Murphy and Endgame. Zusammenfassung Subtitled 'A tragicomedy in two Acts', and famously described by the Irish critic Vivien Mercier as a play in which 'nothing happens, twice', En attendant Godot was first performed at the Théâtre de Babylone in Paris in 1953.

Product details

• Authors: Samuel Beckett, Beckett Samuel
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.06.2010
• EAN: 9780571244591
• ISBN: 978-0-571-24459-1
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 10 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; FICTION / Humorous / General, DRAMA / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, PERFORMING ARTS / Comedy, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Stagecraft & Scenography, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights