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He was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in 1969 "for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation". He was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in 1969 "for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation".
 +==Selected works by Beckett==
-== See ==+===Dramatic works===
 +'''Theatre'''
 +* ''[[Disjecta (Beckett)#Part IV: Human Wishes|Human Wishes]]'' (c. 1936; published 1984)
 +* ''[[Eleutheria (play)|Eleutheria]]'' (written 1947 in French; published in French 1995, and English 1996)
 +* ''En attendant Godot'' (published 1952, performed,1953) (''[[Waiting for Godot]]'', pub.1954, perf. 1955)
 +* ''Acte sans Paroles I'' (1956); ''[[Act Without Words I]]'' (1957)
 +* ''Acte sans Paroles II'' (1956); ''[[Act Without Words II]]'' (1957)
 +* ''Fin de partie'' (published 1957); ''[[Endgame (play)|Endgame]]'' (published 1957)
 +* ''[[Krapp's Last Tape]]'' (first performed 1958)
 +* ''Fragment de théâtre I'' (late 1950s); ''[[Rough for Theatre I]]''
 +* ''Fragment de théâtre II'' (late 1950s); ''[[Rough for Theatre II]]''
 +* ''[[Happy Days (play)|Happy Days]]'' (first performed 1961); ''Oh les beaux jours'' (published 1963)
 +* ''[[Play (play)|Play]]'' (performed in German, as ''Spiel'', 1963; English version 1964)
 +* ''[[Come and Go]]'' (first performed in German, then English, 1966)
 +* ''[[Breath (play)|Breath]]'' (first performed 1969)
 +* ''[[Not I]]'' (first performed 1972)
 +* ''[[That Time]]'' (first performed 1976)
 +* ''[[Footfalls]]'' (first performed 1976)
 +* ''[[Neither (opera)|Neither]]'' (1977) (An "opera", music by [[Morton Feldman]])
 +* ''[[A Piece of Monologue]]'' (first performed 1979)
 +* ''[[Rockaby]]'' (first performed 1981)
 +* ''[[Ohio Impromptu]]'' (first performed 1981)
 +* ''[[Catastrophe (play)|Catastrophe]]'' (''Catastrophe et autres dramatiques'', first performed 1982)
 +* ''[[What Where]]'' (first performed 1983)
-*[[More Pricks Than Kicks]]+'''Radio'''
-'''''More Pricks Than Kicks''''' is a collection of short prose by [[Samuel Beckett]], first published in 1934. It contains extracts from his earlier novel, ''[[Dream of Fair to Middling Women]]'' (for which he was unable to find a publisher), as well as other short stories.+* ''[[All That Fall]]'' (broadcast 1957)
 +* ''[[From an Abandoned Work]]'' (broadcast 1957)
 +* ''[[Embers]]'' (broadcast 1959)
 +* ''[[Rough for Radio I]]'' (published 1976) (written in French in 1961 as ''Esquisse radiophonique'')
 +* ''[[Rough for Radio II]]'' (published 1976) (written in French in 1961 as ''Pochade radiophonique'')
 +* ''[[Words and Music (play)|Words and Music]]'' (broadcast 1962)
 +* ''[[Cascando]]'' (broadcast:1963 French version; 1964 English translation)
-The stories chart the life of the book's main character, Belacqua Shuah, from his days as a student to his accidental death. Beckett takes the name Belacqua from a figure in Dante's ''Purgatorio'', a Florentine lute-maker famed for his laziness, who has given up on ever reaching heaven. The opening story, 'Dante and the Lobster', features Belacqua's horrified reaction to the discovery that the lobster he has bought for dinner must be boiled alive. 'It's a quick death, God help us all', Belacqua tells himself, before the narrator's stern interjection to the contrary: 'It is not.' +'''Television'''
 +* ''[[Eh Joe]]'' with [[Jack MacGowran]] (broadcast 1966)
 +* ''[[Beginning To End]]'' with [[Jack MacGowran]] (1965)
 +* ''[[Ghost Trio (play)|Ghost Trio]]'' (broadcast 1977)
 +* ''[[... but the clouds ...]]'' (broadcast 1977)
 +* ''[[Quad (play)|Quad I + II]]'' (broadcast 1981)
 +* ''[[Nacht und Träume (play)|Nacht und Träume]]'' (broadcast 1983); ''Night and Dreams'', published 1984
 +* ''Beckett Directs Beckett'' (1988/92)
-'The Smeraldina's Billet Doux' is a love letter to Belacqua in fractured English by the German-speaking Smeraldina Rima, a character based on Beckett's cousin Peggy Sinclair. Other real-life originals of ''More Pricks Than Kicks'' characters include Mary Manning Howe (the Caleken Frica), Ethna MacCarthy (the Alba) and Lucia Joyce (the Syra Cusa).+'''Cinema'''
- +* ''[[Film (film)|Film]]'' (1965)
-Almost uniquely for Beckett's male characters, Belacqua shows a marked enthusiasm for the state of matrimony, marrying in quick succession Lucy, Thelma bboggs and the Smeraldina Rima. +
-The final story, "Draff," centres on his funeral. +===Prose===
-At the suggestion of his Chatto editor Charles Prentice Beckett added an additional story, 'Echo's Bones', to the manuscript. In it, Belacqua returns from the dead and is struck on the coccyx by a golfball hit by Lord Gall, who explains his need for a male heir and persuades Belacqua to impregnate his wife. The story remains unpublished.+'''Novels'''
 +* ''[[Dream of Fair to Middling Women]]'' (written 1932; published 1992)
 +* ''[[Murphy (novel)|Murphy]]'' (1938); 1947 Beckett's French version
 +* [[Watt (novel)|''Watt'']] (1953); 1968, Beckett's French version
 +* ''[[Molloy (novel)|Molloy]]'' (1951); English version (1955)
 +* ''Malone meurt'' (1951); ''[[Malone Dies]]'' (1956)
 +* ''L'innommable'' (1953); ''[[The Unnamable (novel)|The Unnamable]]'' (1958)
 +* ''Comment c'est'' (1961); ''[[How It Is]]'' (1964)
 +* ''[[Mercier and Camier]]'' (1970); English translation (1974)
 +'''Short prose'''
 +* ''[[More Pricks Than Kicks]]'' (1934)
 +* "L'Expulsé", written 1946, in ''Nouvelles et Textes pour rien'' (1955); "The Expelled" ''[[Stories and Texts for Nothing]]'' (1967)
 +* "Le Calmant", written 1946, in ''Nouvelles et Textes pour rien'' (1955); "The Calmative", ''[[Stories and Texts for Nothing]]'' (1967)
 +* "Le Fin" or "Suite", written 1946, in ''Nouvelles et Textes pour rien'' (1955); "The End", ''[[Stories and Texts for Nothing]]'' (1967)
 +* "Texts for Nothing", translated into French for ''Nouvelles et Textes pour rein'' (1955); ''[[Stories and Texts for Nothing]]'' (1967)
 +* "L'Image" (1959) a fragment from ''Comment c'est''
 +* '"Premier Amour" (1970, written 1946); translated by Beckett as "[[First Love (Beckett)|First Love]]", 1973
 +* ''Le Dépeupleur'' (1970); ''[[The Lost Ones (Beckett)|The Lost Ones]]'' (1971)
 +* ''Pour finir encore et autres foirades'' (1976); ''For to End Yet Again and Other Fizzles'' (1976)
 +* ''[[Company (novella)|Company]]'' (1980)
 +* ''Mal vu mal dit'' (1981); ''[[Ill Seen Ill Said]]'' (1982)
 +* ''[[Worstward Ho]]'' (1983)
 +* "[[Stirrings Still]]" (1988)
 +* "As the Story was Told" (1990)
 +* ''The Complete Short Prose'': 1929-1989, ed S. E. Gontarski. New York: Grove Press, 1995
 + 
 +'''Non-fiction'''
 +* ''[[Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress|Dante...Bruno. Vico..Joyce]]'' (1929)
 +* ''[[Proust (Beckett essay)|Proust]]'' (1931)
 +* ''[[Three Dialogues]]'' (with Georges Duthuit and Jacques Putnam) (1949)
 +* ''[[Disjecta (Beckett essay)|Disjecta]]'' (1929–1967)
 +===Poetry collections===
 +* ''Whoroscope'' (1930)
 +* ''Echo's Bones and other Precipitates'' (1935)
 +* ''Poems in English'' (1961)
 +* ''Poèmes'' (1968)
 +* ''Collected Poems in English and French'' (1977)
 +* ''What is the Word'' (1989)
 +* ''Selected Poems 1930–1989'' (2009)
 +===Translation collections and long works===
 +* ''Anna Livia Plurabelle'' (James Joyce, French translation by Beckett and others) (1931)
 +* ''Negro: an Anthology'' (Nancy Cunard, editor) (1934)
 +* ''Anthology of Mexican Poems'' ([[Octavio Paz]], editor) (1958)
 +* ''The Old Tune'' ([[Robert Pinget]]) (1963)
 +* ''What Is Surrealism?: Selected Essays'' ([[André Breton]]) (various short pieces in the collection)
 +== See ==
 + 
 +*[[More Pricks Than Kicks]]
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Samuel Barclay Beckett (April 13 1906 – December 22 1989) was an Irish dramatist, novelist and poet.

Beckett's work is stark, fundamentally minimalist, and, according to some interpretations, deeply pessimistic about the human condition. His work grew increasingly cryptic and attenuated over his career.

The perceived pessimism in Beckett's work is mitigated both by a great and often wicked sense of humour, and by the sense, for some readers, that Beckett's portrayal of life's obstacles serves to demonstrate that the journey, while difficult, is ultimately worth the effort. Similarly, many posit that Beckett's expressed "pessimism" is not so much for the human condition but for that of an established cultural and societal structure which imposes a stultifying will upon otherwise hopeful individuals; it is the inherent optimism of the human condition, therefore, that is at tension with the oppressive world.

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969 "for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation".

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Selected works by Beckett

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Dramatic works

Theatre

Radio

Television

Cinema

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Prose

Novels

Short prose

Non-fiction

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Poetry collections

  • Whoroscope (1930)
  • Echo's Bones and other Precipitates (1935)
  • Poems in English (1961)
  • Poèmes (1968)
  • Collected Poems in English and French (1977)
  • What is the Word (1989)
  • Selected Poems 1930–1989 (2009)
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Translation collections and long works

  • Anna Livia Plurabelle (James Joyce, French translation by Beckett and others) (1931)
  • Negro: an Anthology (Nancy Cunard, editor) (1934)
  • Anthology of Mexican Poems (Octavio Paz, editor) (1958)
  • The Old Tune (Robert Pinget) (1963)
  • What Is Surrealism?: Selected Essays (André Breton) (various short pieces in the collection)
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