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 1969 for his "writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation". Beckett was elected Saoi of Aosdána in 1984. He died in Paris of respiratory problems. (Source)
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En attendant Godot: tragicomedy in 2 acts
74 editions - first published in 1952 Borrow -
Malone meurt: a novel
30 editions - first published in 1947 -
Watt
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Happy days: a play in two acts
23 editions - first published in 1961 Borrow -
Murphy
21 editions - first published in 1947 -
Proust
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Film: complete scenario, illustrations, production shots
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Comment c'est
14 editions - first published in 1961 Borrow -
Poems in English
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More pricks than kicks
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L' innommable
10 editions - first published in 1953 -
Mercier et Camier
10 editions - first published in 1946 DAISY -
Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
9 editions - first published in 1959 -
All that fall: a play for radio.
9 editions - first published in 1957 -
Comédie et actes divers: [Traduit de l'anglais par l'auteur]
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Tous ceux qui tombent: pièce radiophonique.
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Têtes-mortes
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Company
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Disjecta: miscellaneous writings and a dramatic fragment
7 editions - first published in 1983 -
Mal vu mal dit
7 editions - first published in 1981 Borrow -
I can't go on, I'll go on: a selection from Samuel Beckett's work
6 editions - first published in 1976 -
Imagination dead imagine
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Premier amour
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Oh les beaux jours
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Krapp's last tape, and other dramatic pieces
6 editions - first published in 1957 Borrow -
Pour finir encore et autres foirades
6 editions - first published in 1976 Borrow -
Samuel Beckett
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Ends and odds: eight new dramatic pieces.
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Lessness
5 editions - first published in 1969 -
The theatrical notebooks of Samuel Beckett
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Nouvelles et Textes pour rien
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Eleutheria
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Play, and two short pieces for radio
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Collected shorter plays
5 editions - first published in 1984 Borrow -
Dream of fair to middling women
5 editions - first published in 1992 Borrow -
Three novels: Molloy. Malone dies. The unnamable
4 editions - first published in 1965 -
Stirrings Still
4 editions - first published in 1988 -
From an abandoned work
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Cascando, and other short dramatic pieces
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Collected poems, 1930-1978
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Endgame, a play in one act: followed by Act without words, a mime for one player
4 editions - first published in 1970 Borrow -
A Samuel Beckett reader: Edited by John Calder.
4 editions - first published in 1967 -
Collected poems in English and French
3 editions - first published in 1977 -
Come and go: a dramaticule.
3 editions - first published in 1967 -
No's knife: collected shorter prose, 1945-1966
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L' image
3 editions - first published in 1959 -
Rockaby and other short pieces
3 editions - first published in 1981 -
Warten auf Godot
3 editions - first published in 1960 -
Three Novels by Samuel Beckett: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
3 editions - first published in 1958 -
Relatos
3 editions - first published in 2002 -
Arikha
3 editions - first published in 1985 -
Pour Finir Encore
3 editions - first published in 1976 -
Nohow on: three novels
3 editions - first published in 1989 -
That time =: Damals
3 editions - first published in 1976 -
Pas: suivi de quatre esquisses
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Not I
3 editions - first published in 1973 -
Bram van Velde: paintings, 1957-1967
3 editions - first published in 1958 -
Le dépeupleur
3 editions - first published in 1970 -
Poèmes [suivi de Mirlitonnades]
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Krapp's last tape, and Embers
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Paroles et Musique: Comédie ; Dis Joe
2 editions - first published in 1972 -
Oh les beaux jours (Happy days): Pièce en deux actes.
2 editions - first published in 1963 -
Whoroscope: [poem]
2 editions - first published in 1930 -
Teatro di Samuel Beckett
2 editions - first published in 1969 -
The shorter plays: with revised texts for Footfalls, Come and go and What where
2 editions - first published in 1999 -
No Author Better Served: The Correspondence of Samuel Beckett and Alan Schneider
2 editions - first published in 1998 -
Words and music
2 editions - first published in 1972 -
The letters of Samuel Beckett
2 editions - first published in 2009 -
Le monde et le pantalon: Suivi de Peintres de l'empêchement
2 editions - first published in 1989 -
Beckett was here: Hamburg im Tagebuch Samuel Becketts von 1936
2 editions - first published in 2006 -
Mehr Prügel als Flügel
2 editions - first published in 1989 -
Le\Depeupleur
2 editions - first published in 1970 -
Samuel Beckett: the complete short prose, 1929-1989
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Tetes Mortes
2 editions - first published in 1972 -
Traum von mehr bis minder schönen Frauen
2 editions - first published in 1996 -
Esperando a Godot
2 editions - first published in 2002 -
Collected Works of Samuel Beckett
2 editions - first published in 1970 -
Endgame, a play in one act, followed by Act without words, a mime for one player
2 editions - first published in 1958 -
Séjour
2 editions - first published in 1970 -
Eh Joe, and other writings
2 editions - first published in 1967 -
Quad: et Trio du fantôme, ... que nuages ..., Nacht und Träume
2 editions - first published in 1992 -
Textos para nada
2 editions - first published in 1971 -
Endspiel
2 editions - first published in 1974 -
The Complete Dramatic Works
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MOLLOY : A NOVEL / Samuel Beckett ; translated from the French by Patrick Bowles in collaboration with the Author
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La dernière bande: [suivi de Cendres]
2 editions - first published in 1959 -
All strange away
2 editions - first published in 1976 -
Worstward ho
2 editions - first published in 1983 Borrow -
Eleuthéria: a play in three acts
2 editions - first published in 1995 Borrow -
Cahier de lh̓erne
2 editions - first published in 1976 -
Samuel Beckett's Company/Compagnie ; and, A piece of monologue/Solo
2 editions - first published in 1993 -
Warten auf Godot. (Königs Erläuterungen und Materialien)
1 edition - first published in 2003 -
Yamim ṭovim: maḥazeh bi-shete maʻarakhot
1 edition - first published in 1967 -
Lueurs lisières
1 edition - first published in 1978 -
Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett: All That Fall, Act Without Words, Krapp's Last Tape, Cascando, Eh Joe, Footfall, Rockaby and others
1 edition - first published in 1994 -
Pas moi
1 edition - first published in 1975 -
Mercier y Camier
1 edition - first published in 1992 -
Ohio impromptu ; Catastrophe ; and What where ; Enough ; Footfalls ; and Rockaby: two programs of one-act plays.
1 edition - first published in 1984 -
Beckett Short (Calderbooks)
1 edition - first published in 1975 -
Residua
1 edition - first published in 2002
Samuel Beckett
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