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Nicol Williamson, tempestuous but talented stage and screen actor, dies at 75

Washington Post - Jan 26, 2012
Author Samuel Beckett pronounced him “touched by genius.” The British playwright John Osborne, who made Mr. Williamson a marquee name in the 1964 drama “Inadmissible Evidence,” considered him “the greatest actor since Marlon Brando.

Readability formulas and Obama's speech, Gingrich's PhD

Washington Post (blog) - Jan 26, 2012
That is better than the first act of the absurdist Samuel Beckett play “Waiting for Godot” scored on the same formula; it earned a 4.08 grade level, though you aren't likely to find the play in many fourth-grade classes. Obama's score is only slightly ...

James Joyce's Ulysses: The beginning of an epiphany

The Independent (blog) - Jan 25, 2012
It involved Samuel Beckett, an erstwhile disciple of Joyce, who was freshly back from his involvement in the French Resistance during the war. His literary career had not yet yielded the works on which his modern reputation is based; he had written ...

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Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by: Samuel Beckett
A seminal work of twentieth-century drama, Waiting for Godot was Samuel Beckett’s first professionally produced play. It opened in Paris in 1953 at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone, and has since become a cornerstone of twentieth-century theater.

The story line revolves around two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone—or something—named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree on a barren stretch of road, inhabiting a drama spun from their own consciousness. The result is a comical wordplay of poetry, dreamscapes, and nonsense, which has been interpreted as a somber summation of mankind’s inexhaustible search for meaning.
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Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

by: Samuel Beckett
Few works of contemporary literature are so universally acclaimed as central to our understanding of the human experience as Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett’s famous trilogy. Molloy, the first of these masterpieces, appeared in French in 1951. It was followed seven months later by Malone Dies and two years later by The Unnamable. All three have been rendered into English by the author.
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Happy Days

by: Samuel Beckett
In 'Happy Days, ' Beckett pursues his relentless search for the meaning of existence, probing the tenuous relationships that bind one person to another, and each to the universe, to time past and time present.
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Endgame and Act Without Words

by: Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature n 1969; his literary output of plays, novels, stories and poetry has earned him an uncontested place as one of the greatest writers of our time. "Endgame, " originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett himself, is considered by many critics to be his greatest single work. A pinnacle of Beckett's characteristic raw minimalism, it is a pure and devastating distillation of the human essence in the face of approaching death.
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