- French language materials, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Manners and customs, Fiction
"An old man is dying in a room. His bowl of soup comes, his pots are emptied. He waits to die. And while he waits, he constructs stories, mainly to pass the time. Saposcat, the Lambert family, Macmann and his nurse Moll. Other figures weave in and out of his vision and his imagination"--Publisher's web site.
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- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Samuel Beckett
- First published
- 1947
- Pages
- 120
- Publisher
- Calder Publications Ltd, Union générale d'éditions, Calder & Boyars
- Editions
- 30
- Language
- French, English, und
- ISBN
- 9788439913795
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Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish avant-garde writer, dramatist and poet, writing in English and French. Beckett's work offers a bleak outlook on human culture and both formally and philosophically became increasingly minimalist in his later career. As a student, assistant, and friend of James Joyce, Beckett is considered one of the last modernists; as an inspiration to many later writers, he is sometimes considered one of the first postmodernists. He is also considered one of the key writers in what Martin Esslin called "Theatre of the Absurd." As such, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 19
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