Samuel Barclay Beckett nació el 13 de abril de 1906 en Dublín, Irlanda. Estudió en la escuela protestante Earlsford House y posteriormente en el Trinity College de Dublín, donde logró la licenciatura en lenguas romances en 1927 y el doctorado en 1931. En 1937 se mudó a París y, tras la ocupación alemana de 1940, se alistó en la Resistencia Francesa. En 1942, tras ser perseguido por la Gestapo, huyó hacia el sur junto a su esposa. En 1969 obtuvo el Premio Nobel de Literatura. Murió en París, Francia, el 22 de diciembre de 1989.
50 Ebooks by Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett: Selected Poems 1930-1988
It was as a poet that Samuel Beckett launched himself in the little reviews of 1930s Paris, and as a poet that he ended his career. This new selection, from Whoroscope (1930) to 'what is the …
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Samuel Beckett: Molloy
Molloy is Samuel Beckett's best-known novel, and his first published work to be written in French, ushering in a period of concentrated creativity in the late 1940s which included the companion …
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Samuel Beckett: How It Is
Published in French in 1961, and in English in 1964, How It Is is a novel in three parts, written in short paragraphs, which tell (abruptly, cajolingly, bleakly) of a narrator lying in the dark, in …
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Samuel Beckett: More Pricks Than Kicks
His first published work of fiction (1934), More Pricks Than Kicks is a set of ten interlocked stories, set in Dublin and involving their adrift hero Belacqua in a series of encounters, as woman …
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Samuel Beckett: Texts for Nothing and Other Shorter Prose, 1950-1976
This is the last of three volumes of collected shorter prose to be published in the Faber edition of the works of Samuel Beckett – which already includes a volume of early stories (The Expelled/The …
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Samuel Beckett: Malone Dies
'Malone', writes Malone, 'is what I am called now.' On his deathbed, and wiling away the time with stories, the octogenarian Malone's account of his condition is intermittent …
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Samuel Beckett: The Unnamable
The iconic trilogy of novels by the era-defining Nobel laureate, relaunched for a new generation.I can't go on, I'll go on.Molloy: a sordid vagrant riding his bicycle through the …
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Samuel Beckett: Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still
These four last prose fictions by Samuel Beckett were originally published individually, and their composition spanned the final decade of his life. In Company a solitary hearer lying in blackness …
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Samuel Beckett: Watt
Written in Roussillon during World War Two, while Samuel Beckett was hiding from the Gestapo, Watt was first published in 1953. Beckett acknowledged that this comic novel unlike any other 'has …
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Samuel Beckett: Mercier and Camier
Written over three months in 1946, Mercier and Camier was Beckett's first post-war work, and his first novel in French. He came to regard it as a practice piece, and set it aside to write his …
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Samuel Beckett: Murphy
Edited by J. C. C. Mays Murphy, Samuel Beckett's first novel, was published in 1938. Its work-shy eponymous hero, adrift in London, realises that desire can never be satisfied and withdraws from …
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Samuel Beckett: The Expelled/The Calmative/The End with First Love
These four stories or 'nouvelles' date from 1945, though all were published much later, in French and subsequently in English. All make use of a first-person narrator, and relish its …
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Samuel Beckett: Krapp”s Last Tape and Other Shorter Plays
Krapp's Last Tape was first performed by Patrick Magee at the Royal Court Theatre in October 1958, and described as 'a solo, if that is the word, for one voice and two organs: one human, …
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Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot
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 …
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Samuel Beckett: Endgame
Originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett, Endgame was given its first London performance at the Royal Court Theatre in 1957.HAMM: Clov!CLOV: Yes.HAMM: Nature has forgotten …
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Samuel Beckett: Happy Days
Happy Days was written in 1960 and first produced in London at the Royal Court Theatre in November 1962.WINNIE: [ . . .] Well anyway – this man Shower – or Cooker – no matter – and the woman – hand …
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Samuel Beckett: All That Fall and Other Plays for Radio and Screen
This new edition brings together all of Beckett's dramatic writings for radio, television and film, offering works which range from eloquent comic naturalism to an eviscerated and pared-down …
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Samuel Beckett: The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett
The present volume gathers all of Beckett's texts for theatre, from 1955 to 1984. It includes both the major dramatic works and the short and more compressed texts for the stage and for …
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Samuel Beckett: Echo”s Bones
'Echo's Bones' was intended by Samuel Beckett to form the 'recessional' or end-piece of his early collection of interrelated stories, More Pricks Than Kicks, published in …
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Samuel Beckett: Dante and the Lobster
Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.Well, thought Belacqua, it's a quick death, God help us …
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Samuel Beckett: Eleutheria
Written in French in the late forties before Waiting for Godot, Eleutheria is about a young man at odds with his middle-class family, living alone in a bedsit and refusing to take part in …
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Samuel Beckett: Echo’s Bones
In 1933, Chatto & Windus agreed to publish Samuel Beckett’s
More Pricks Than Kicks, a collection of ten interrelated stories—his first published work of fiction. At his editor’s request, Beckett …
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Samuel Beckett: Three Novels
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 …
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Samuel Beckett: Stories and Texts for Nothing
This volume brings together three of Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett’s major short stories and thirteen shorter pieces of fiction that he calls “texts for nothing.” Here, as in all his work, Beck …
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Samuel Beckett: First Love and Other Shorts
‘First Love’, a man’s musings about his youth occasioned by his visit to his father’s grave, was first written by Samuel Beckett in French in 1945, but it wasn’t until 1973 that he completed this t …
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Samuel Beckett: Rockabye and Other Short Pieces
We find in Beckett’s masterful, exquisite prose, the familiar themes from his earlier works here expressed in the anguished murmurings of the solitary human consciousness. …
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Samuel Beckett: Nohow On
The three pieces that comprise this volume are among the most delicate and disquieting of Samuel Beckett’s later prose. Each confined to a single consciousness in a closed space, these stories are …
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Samuel Beckett: Watt
In prose possessed of the radically stripped-down beauty and ferocious wit that characterize his work, this early novel by Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett recounts the grotesque and improbable ad …
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Samuel Beckett: Murphy
Murphy, Samuel Beckett’s first published novel, is set in London and Dublin, during the first decades of the Irish Republic. The title character loves Celia in a “striking case of love requited” bu …
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Samuel Beckett: More Pricks Than Kicks
Samuel Beckett, the recipient of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature and one of the greatest writers of our century, first published these ten short stories in 1934; they originally formed part of …
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Samuel Beckett: Krapp’s Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces
This collection of Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett’s dramatic pieces includes a short stage play, two radio plays, and two pantomimes. The stage play
Krapp’s Last Tape evolves a shattering dram …
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Samuel Beckett: Happy Days
In
Happy Days, Samuel 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, top time pas …
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Samuel Beckett: I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On
Winner of the Nobel Prize for literature and acknowledged as one of the greatest writers of our time, Samuel Beckett has had a profound impact upon the literary landscape of the twentieth century. …
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Samuel Beckett: Ends and Odds
Ends and Odds brings together nine short dramatic works by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Waiting for Godot. …
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Samuel Beckett: Disjecta
“[Beckett] is a serious writer with something serious to say about the human condition: and therefore one of the dozen or so writers those who are concerned with modern man in search of his soul sh …
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Samuel Beckett: The Complete Short Prose of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1989
Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett was one of the most profoundly original writers of the 20th century. He gave expression to the anguish and isolation of the individual consciousness with a purity …
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Samuel Beckett: Collected Poems in English and French
This collection gathers together the Nobel Prize-winning writer Samuel Beckett’s English poems (including Whoroscope, his first published verse), English translations of poems by Eluard, Rimbaud, A …
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Samuel Beckett: The Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett, the great minimalist master and winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature, has produced some of his most widely praised work for the stage in the form of the shorter play. This …
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Samuel Beckett: Mercier and Camier
Mercier and Camier, Beckett’s first postwar novel and his first in French, has been described as a forerunner of his most famous work, Waiting for Godot. Like the play, Mercier and Camier revolves …
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Samuel Beckett: Molloy
Molloy, the first of the three masterpieces which constitute Samuel Beckett’s famous trilogy, appeared in French in 1951, followed seven months later by Malone Dies (Malone meurt) and two years lat …
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Samuel Beckett: How It Is
“It is one thing to be informed by Shakespeare that life “is a tale told by an idiot signifying nothing”; it is something else to encounter the idea literally presented in a novel by Samuel Beckett …
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Samuel Beckett: Endgame and Act Without Words
Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, novels, stories and poetry has earned him an uncontested place as one of the greatest writers of our …
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Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot
From an inauspicious beginning at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone in 1953, followed by bewilderment among American and British audiences,
Waiting for Godot has become of the most important …
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W.J. McCormack: In the Prison of his Days
Compiled while Nelson Mandela was still in prison, 'In the Prison of His Day's is one of the earliest books about Mandela to have been published in the English language. 'This …
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Samuel Beckett: Warten auf Godot – Waiting for Godot von Samuel Beckett. Textanalyse und Interpretation.
Die Königs Erläuterung zu Samuel Beckett: Warten auf Godot – Waiting for Godot ist eine verlässliche und bewährte Textanalyse und Interpretationshilfe für Schüler und weiterführende …
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Samuel Beckett: Dream of Fair to Middling Women
Beckett's first 'literary landmark' (St Petersburg Times) is a wonderfully savoury introduction to the Nobel Prize-winning author. Written in 1932, when the twenty-six-year-old Beckett …
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Samuel Beckett: Molloy
Molloy busca a su madre, Moran busca a Molloy. Odisea filial, novela de detectives, manual razonado de cómo chupar piedras… Del mismo modo que Malone muere y El innombrable, los otros libros de esta …
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Samuel Beckett: Malone muere
Postrado sin saber bien dónde ni por qué, Malone espera su muerte, como a fin de cuentas solemos esperarla todos, contándose historias y tratando de hacer un inventario de sus pertenencias. Si la …
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Samuel Beckett: Proust
Samuel Beckett ringt mit sechzehn Bänden Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit und mit jenem doppelköpfigen Ungeheuer der Verdammung und Erlösung: Der Zeit, der man nicht entrinnen kann. Denn wir si …
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Samuel Beckett: El innombrable
En El innombrable, un narrador cuya identidad es casi imposible de desentrañar (¿es una persona, es varias o no es ninguna?), filosofa sobre su oscura vida y se va sumiendo, a medida que avanza la …
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