Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal and tragicomic experiences of life, often coupled with black comedy and nonsense. His work became increasingly minimalist as his career progressed, involving more aesthetic and linguistic experimentation, with techniques of repetition and self-reference. He is considered one of the last modernist writers, and one of the key figures in what Martin Esslin called the Theatre of the Absurd.
Books by Samuel Beckett
6 books available
Malone Dies
by Samuel Beckett
3.9(3,851)
On his deathbed, the octogenarian Malone rambles through contradictory, often enraged, and darkly witty tales of his decaying existence, finding fleeting solace in the distant, wild barks of dogs.
Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett
3.8(160,324)
Two tramps wait endlessly by a barren tree for Godot, filling the void with absurd, poetic banter while grappling with the meaninglessness of existence.
Molloy
by Samuel Beckett
4.1(6,401)
In a dark, internal quest, an old Molloy's fragmented memories merge with a detective Moran's absurd search for him, blurring identity and reality in a world on the brink.
Murphy
by Samuel Beckett
3.9(4,794)
In 1930s London, Murphy, a man uncomfortable with the physical world, seeks a home and fortune, finding peace in an asylum and an absurd freedom.
The Unnamable
by Samuel Beckett
4.0(2,109)
Trapped in an endless monologue, the Unnamable grapples with the futility of language and the relentless compulsion to speak, even as he yearns for the oblivion of silence and the cessation of self.
Happy Days
by Samuel Beckett
3.9(5,449)
Buried up to her waist and then her neck, Winnie, with her dwindling possessions and the sporadic company of her mostly unseen husband Willie, relentlessly, and with a smile, battles the encroaching earth and existential dread using only her words.