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Give me a rundown on Samuel Beckett. What is he all about? Also where to start with him?

>> No.13489594

>>13489576
You’re already on the Internet and you’re still fucking stupid, but where to start first? HUR DURR START AT HURRR DURRR

>> No.13489601

>>13489576
with one of his books or plays

>> No.13489608
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13489608

Surrealism. Start with Waiting for Godot

>> No.13489610

Minimalism and lonelines. You can start with Molloy.

>> No.13489616

>>13489608
>Surrealism
incredibly wrong

>>13489610
>Minimalism
what do you mean by minimalism?

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13489623

Start with Murphy.

pic highly related though

>> No.13489645

>>13489616
Beckett's stories are simple with few characters.

>> No.13489659

>>13489576
Some Anon here said Beckett hated words and for that he was a man or something, he didn't elaborate on tjat.

>> No.13489677

>>13489576

Start with Waiting For Godot, then read Worstward Ho, then Krapp’s Last Tape and then the Trilogy. From there you can read more of the novellas (Watt, Mercier and Camier) or his short plays

>> No.13490020

>>13489576
He has a fetish for sucking stones.

>> No.13490358

Bump

>> No.13490820

Bump

>> No.13490891

>>13490020
>>13490358
>>13490820
reads like a beckett story

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>>13489594
Grow up, man.

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13490932

>>13489608
We now have an unofficial sequel:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/141EoOrzARPgUPsaO3wdJFOOV_iBl1Ftg9IQTeBgl7uk/edit?usp=sharing

>> No.13492314

>>13489608
>surrealism
Moron.

>> No.13492315

>>13489576
he looks like a bird

>> No.13492318

>>13489576
Beckett is basically what would’ve happened if Schopenhauer was an engineer.

>> No.13492337

If his name were Samuel Backett it would be an anagram for CUM BAKE SALE T.T

>> No.13492447

Don't waste your time.

>> No.13492483

>>13489576
>Worked as Joyce's secretary
>Was part of the French resistance
>Career was made by his wife who was his editor and literary connection
>Supposedly the idea for Godot came when he was waiting on a corner for a friend and turned down a prostitute who asked him if he was waiting for Godot, the name of the street
>Wandered Paris late at night with Giacometti, fucking prostitutes and being intellectual

>> No.13492574

>>13492483
You forgot
>used to schoolrun Andre the Giant

>> No.13492775

>>13489576
just read his shorter, minimalist plays and after two or three you'll get the feel for them. There's also some of his plays performed on Youtube. Apparently women love him. There's also a good sex joke told by Zizek about Beckett, it goes like "something, something, try and fail better"