English Literature / Unit 17 ENL 1614 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Samuel Beckett
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The idea
Samuel Beckett, born in Dublin, moved to Paris, assisted Joyce, served in the French Resistance, and wrote in both French and English. The anchor describes his work as minimal and absurdist, marked by futility, gallows humour and a will to live. He won the Nobel Prize in nineteen sixty-nine.
In practice
Dublin, Paris, two languages.
Where people slip
Beckett wrote Godot first in French.
Your place on the trail
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