The most depressing writer of all. Worse than Kafka. You’d wish you were dead 10 minutes into a Beckett drama.
I like becketts plays, hard to wrap your head around at first but I think I can make sense of the most well known plays.
A lot easier to wrap my head around that Beckett supposedly used to give Andre the giant a lift to school with his son.
Sam the man has a reputation for obscurity and misanthropism but he writes with great humour, black humour of course. Lovely photo.
My Dad hung out with him once in a café in Paris back in 1980. I borrowed his copy of Murphy and found Sam’s signature in the inside cover that he signed during that occassion. I believe grandfather knew him too. I believe he was just a nice down to earth guy who was uncomfortable with celebrity status, not the eccentric recluse people might imagine him to be.
I wonder if he constantly wrote home about how much cheaper things were
Looks like Andre the Giant’s taxi driver
Incredibly underrated writer, people who haven’t read him but only heard of him always chalk him down as some sort of life-denying le epic nihilist XD. In terms of prose he’s only surpassed by Joyce and I count that for the entire western canon. He managed to see what Joyce did and do the exact same in the opposite direction in terms of minimalist plot, structure, grammar etc yet kept the depth and density in the content. Should be mandatory reading for all English students at Leaving Cert along with Joyce.
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The most depressing writer of all. Worse than Kafka. You’d wish you were dead 10 minutes into a Beckett drama.
I like becketts plays, hard to wrap your head around at first but I think I can make sense of the most well known plays.
A lot easier to wrap my head around that Beckett supposedly used to give Andre the giant a lift to school with his son.
Sam the man has a reputation for obscurity and misanthropism but he writes with great humour, black humour of course. Lovely photo.
My Dad hung out with him once in a café in Paris back in 1980. I borrowed his copy of Murphy and found Sam’s signature in the inside cover that he signed during that occassion. I believe grandfather knew him too. I believe he was just a nice down to earth guy who was uncomfortable with celebrity status, not the eccentric recluse people might imagine him to be.
I wonder if he constantly wrote home about how much cheaper things were
Looks like Andre the Giant’s taxi driver
Incredibly underrated writer, people who haven’t read him but only heard of him always chalk him down as some sort of life-denying le epic nihilist XD. In terms of prose he’s only surpassed by Joyce and I count that for the entire western canon. He managed to see what Joyce did and do the exact same in the opposite direction in terms of minimalist plot, structure, grammar etc yet kept the depth and density in the content. Should be mandatory reading for all English students at Leaving Cert along with Joyce.