Give me a rundown on Samuel Beckett. What is he all about? Also where to start with him?
Give me a rundown on Samuel Beckett. What is he all about? Also where to start with him?
Joshua Sullivan
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Lincoln Edwards
You’re already on the Internet and you’re still fucking stupid, but where to start first? HUR DURR START AT HURRR DURRR
Andrew Ramirez
with one of his books or plays
Aiden Perry
Surrealism. Start with Waiting for Godot
Jordan Foster
Minimalism and lonelines. You can start with Molloy.
Hunter Carter
>Surrealism
incredibly wrong
>Minimalism
what do you mean by minimalism?
Josiah Flores
Start with Murphy.
pic highly related though
Asher Robinson
Beckett's stories are simple with few characters.
Grayson Perry
Some user here said Beckett hated words and for that he was a man or something, he didn't elaborate on tjat.
Tyler Hall
Start with Waiting For Godot, then read Worstward Ho, then Krapp’s Last Tape and then the Trilogy. From there you can read more of the novellas (Watt, Mercier and Camier) or his short plays
Aiden Jenkins
He has a fetish for sucking stones.
Liam Rivera
Bump
Kevin Martinez
Bump
Leo Smith
reads like a beckett story
Jason Thomas
Grow up, man.
Connor Ramirez
We now have an unofficial sequel:
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John Lewis
>surrealism
Moron.
Josiah Harris
he looks like a bird
Lincoln Martin
Beckett is basically what would’ve happened if Schopenhauer was an engineer.
Juan Johnson
If his name were Samuel Backett it would be an anagram for CUM BAKE SALE T.T
Josiah Robinson
Don't waste your time.
Angel Jones
>Worked as Joyce's secretary
>Was part of the French resistance
>Career was made by his wife who was his editor and literary connection
>Supposedly the idea for Godot came when he was waiting on a corner for a friend and turned down a prostitute who asked him if he was waiting for Godot, the name of the street
>Wandered Paris late at night with Giacometti, fucking prostitutes and being intellectual
Juan Peterson
You forgot
>used to schoolrun Andre the Giant
Kevin Watson
just read his shorter, minimalist plays and after two or three you'll get the feel for them. There's also some of his plays performed on Youtube. Apparently women love him. There's also a good sex joke told by Zizek about Beckett, it goes like "something, something, try and fail better"