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Samuel Beckett had a Gucci bag; Dorothy Parker worked for Vogue. A new book on writers’ style uncovers the hidden links between clothes and prose
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Samuel Beckett, in full Samuel Barclay Beckett, (born April 13?, 1906, Foxrock, County Dublin, Ireland—died December 22, 1989, Paris, France), author, critic, and playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. He wrote in both French and English and is perhaps best known for his plays, especially En attendant Godot (1952; Waiting for Godot). Samuel Beckett was born in a suburb of Dublin. Like his fellow Irish writers George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler Yeats, he came from a Protestant, Anglo-Irish background. At the age of 14 he went to the Portora Royal School, in what
An article for NYC's Lincoln Center exploring the writer's presence on social media
Using literature as metaphor, columnist Jamie Hughes explains why people can never fully understand the experience of living with MS if they don't have the disease.
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Harold Pinter, who died on Christmas Eve, was one of the most influential and provocative dramatists of his generation. Look back on Pinter's career and the most significant productions of his plays
Nearly half a century after Samuel Beckett, the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to another British playwright who was as influential in his way as Becket. This was Harold Pinter, who came in…
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He wasn’t always an éminence grise. Remembering his confident post-Stonewall style and those dashing author photos.
Here at the Samuel Beckett Society, we're not sure what to make of Robert Armstrong's recent piece in the Financial Times about the end of the male style icon. Armstrong is wistful for a simpler time, when male celebrity figures were supposedly emulated and celebrated for their sartorial choices. What do you think? Does Beckett's dress code…
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This new collection brings together First Love, The Calamative, The End and The Expelled; these four novellas are among the first major works of Beckett's decision to use French as his language of literary composition. Rich in verbal and situational humour, they offer a fascinating insight into many of the issues which preoccupied Beckett all his working life. As the first novella reveals, nobody writes with quite such cruel and unnervingly clever wit as Beckett...
" No os regocijéis en su derrota. Por más que el mundo se mantuvo en pie y paró al bastardo, la perra de la que nació está en celo...
This gallery showcases illustrations drawn for The New York Review by five artists: David Levine, whose more than 3,500 caricatures have illuminated articles published in the Review since 1963; and John Springs, Pancho (Francisco Grails), James Ferguson, and Siegfried Woldhek whose works have been published regularly i
Samuel Beckett’s life in letters.
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