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| | Samuel Beckett Encyclopedia Article @ FolkArtMuseum.com |
 | | Although Beckett was a native English speaker, he chose to write in French because, as he claimed, French was a language in which it was easier to write without style. | | | Caselli, Daniela, Beckett's Dantes: Intertextuality in the Fiction and Criticism (MUP 2005) ISBN 0719071569 | | | Beckett attempted to publish a book of poems in 1934, with no success. |
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http://www.folkartmuseum.com/encyclopedia/Samuel_Beckett
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| | Literary Encyclopedia: Samuel Beckett |
| | Far from meaning that his stories, novels and plays are nihilistic, pessimistic and depressing, this description rather refers to Beckett’s lifelong suspicion of the tools of cultural competency which the twentieth century inherited from liberal humanist constructions of human self-identity. | | | His tortured relationship with his mother, May, influenced him long before and long after her death in 1950, and his writing bears traces throughout of that unreconciled relationship of dependency, respect and antagonism. | | | During the Second World War Beckett, now settled in France and partnered with Suzanne Deschevaux-Dumesnil, worked as a courier for the French Resistance, and retreating to a barn in Roussillon, concealed himself from detection. |
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| | Beckett, Samuel - Columbia Encyclopedia article about Beckett, Samuel |
| | The anguish of persisting in a meaningless world is intensified in Beckett's subsequent novels including Watt (1942–44); the trilogy Molloy (1951), Malone Dies (1951), and The Unnamable (1953); How It Is (1961); and The Lost Ones (1972). | | | He wrote primarily in French, frequently translating his works into English himself. | | | Instead, he presents the experience of waiting and struggling with a pervading sense of futility. |
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http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/Beckett,+Samuel
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