Innumerable interpretations have been made. It is also profitable to consider the play in accord with aesthetic notions of minimalism. Waiting for Godot is considered his iconic work, and representative of his “middle period” of writing (alongside three other full-length plays, Endgame, Krapp’s Last Tape, and Happy Days), which is characterized as founding the “Theatre of the Absurd,” for its representation of Camus’ idea of absurdity (with synchronicities to existentialism’s absurdity and despair as developed across Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Sartre, etc., although with a generally stronger will to live throughout than in Camus’ works). In 1969, Beckett won the Nobel Prize for Literature. being a failure and its NYC performance a success). Its London open in 1955 was more negatively reviewed, although eventually became popular (as with its Miami opening in the U.S. ![]() His famous Waiting for Godot ( En attendant Godot) was written in 1952 (first in French, then translated himself to English, although not always literally, minor details are changed throughout) and performed in 1953, which was exceedingly well-received and controversial in its Paris opening with critique remarking how it was spell-binding, despite nothing happening in the first act, and then nothing more happening in the second. During WWII, he joined the French Resistance, working as a courier, later being awareded the Croix de guerre and the Médaille de la Résistance. In the 1920-30’s, he travelled Europe, began psychotherapy, and continued publishing profusely (essays, reviews, stories, and poems). ![]() ![]() Samuel Barclay Beckett (1906-1989), born in Dublin, he studied French, Italian, and English at Trinity College, Dublin, teaching first in Belfast and then at the École Normale Supérier in Paris (where he met and became close with James Joyce), and back to Dublin to Trinity College. (Estragon to Vladimir in Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, Act II, 59). “We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist?”
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