Donnerstag, 13. Juni 2024

13.06.2024 - Samuel Beckett & Absurd Theatre and Godot & no escape from illusions etc.

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13.06.2018 - Samuel Beckett2 and Meaninglessness etc...

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Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) is an Irish novelist and playwright, one of the great names of Absurd Theatre…
His plays are concerned with human suffering and survival...
Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969...
In his writings for the theatre Beckett showed influence of burlesque, vaudeville, the music hall, “comedia dell'arte”, and the silent-film of such figures as...
“We are all born mad - Some remain so”... (From Waiting for Godot, 1952)
Beckett was born in Dublin into a prosperous Protestant family...
Beckett's mother, Mary Rose, had worked as a nurse...
He was educated at the Portora Royal School and Trinity College, Dublin...
Beckett worked as a teacher in Belfast and lecturer in English in Paris...
After his father died, Beckett received an annuity that enabled him to settle in London...
In 1938 he was hospitalized from a stab he had received from a pimp to whom he had refused to give... - Around this time he met Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil - a piano-student, whom he...
When WWII broke out, Beckett was in Ireland, but he hastened to Paris and joined a Resistance network...
After the war Beckett worked briefly with the Irish Red Cross in St. Lo in Normandy...
These books (Molloy, Malone Meurt, L'innommable, 1950) reflected Beckett's bitter realization - that there is no escape from illusions and...
Beckett was obsessed by a desire to create what he called...
2 tramps, Vladimir and Estragon, who call each other Gogo and Didi - meet themselves near a bare tree on a... - They wait for the promised arrival of Godot, whose name could refer to...
Godot sends word that he will not come that day - but will surely come...

Without Godot, their world does not have purpose - but suicide is not the solution to their… (P.A.C.) 

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