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	Samuel Beckett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Samuel Barclay Beckett (April 13, 1906 – December 22, 1989) was an Irish playwright, novelist and poet.
		Beckett's work is stark, fundamentally minimalist, and deeply pessimistic about the human condition, although the pessimism is mitigated by a great and often wicked sense of humour.
		The Beckett family (originally Becquet) were rumoured to be of Huguenot stock and had moved to Ireland from France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samuel_Beckett (2861 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Samuel Beckett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The rest of Beckett’s life, apart from intermittent trips in Europe and the USA to direct his plays (and regular Christmas breaks in Tangier) was spent in Paris, where he and Suzanne had a flat, and in a small house in Ussy-sur-Marne—built by Beckett himself—in which he secluded himself for writing.
		Beckett was motivated to protest against the prescriptive and limiting nature of “realist” conventions both in art and in human behaviour, relationships and political life.
		The major change wrought by Beckett in the tradition of prose fiction was to eviscerate the formerly sure and reliable notions of character, location, culture and narrative convention (in a manner comparable to composer Anton Webern’s contraction of the classical orchestral symphony into a five-minute episode of music studded with silence).
	www.literaryencyclopedia.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5161 (1688 words)

	Samuel Beckett. Biography and complete works
		Beckett's mother, May, also a subject of dispute among biographers, was neurotic at least and at worst bigoted, abusive, and cruel.
		Works produced by Beckett in these years -- books like More Pricks Than Kicks (1934), Murphy (1938), and Mercier and Camier (1946) -- while full of interest and appeal, are ostentatious in their literary devices and represent an author still unsure of himself, still too swayed by the encyclopaedic example and influence of Joyce.
		Beckett returned to Dublin in 1959 to receive an honorary doctorate from Trinity College, and two years later he won, with Jorge Luis Borges, the Prix International des Editeurs (or Prix Formentor), valued at $10,000 and the Nobel Prize in 1969 (the third Irishman of the century to be so honored).
	www.booksfactory.com /writers/beckett.htm (885 words)

	Famous Irish Lives - Samuel Beckett
		The Becketts were of French Huguenot descent and, after a distinguished career at Trinity College, Dublin, he was to spend much of his life in France.
		Beckett was in Dublin at the outbreak of World War II, but 'preferred France at war to Ireland at peace'.
		Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969, but shunned the presentation ceremony.
	www.irelandseye.com /aarticles/history/people/whoswho/beckett.shtm (348 words)

	Beckett
		Beckett’s experience is almost commonplace by now to the middle-class European intelligentsia and valid by virtue of that fact alone—and his expression of it is sharply witty, inventive, theatrically compact.
		Beckett is what in modern times we call a genius: he has built a cosmos out of the awareness of a passing moment.
		Beckett’s placement of this story early in the play indicates his authorial concern with establishing immediately the theme of blighted hope, the tone of grieving despair.
	www.samuel-beckett.net /Penelope/Beckett.html (8316 words)

	Beckett - Biography
		Later in life, however, Beckett would purport to have memories prior to this event, memories of being in his mother's womb: a situation less blissful than stifling, readily associable with the tight enclosures pondered by the characters and voices in so many of his works.
		Beckett became, in his own words, "the proud possessor of a pleural barometer," and his inner organs became even more sensitive to the climate of the outside world.
		Beckett's assailant, improbably named Prudent, met his victim during his criminal trial and said in polite French that he did not know why he had done it, and that he was sorry.
	www.themodernword.com /beckett/beckett_biography.html (1722 words)

	Drama: Samuel Beckett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) was born in Dublin to an upper-middle-class Protestant family.
		Beckett's earliest writings appeared in Eugene Jolas's avant-garde literary journal transition, which put him in the center of Parisian literary activity in the late 1920s.
		Beckett's first published play, Waiting for Godot (1952), was produced in Paris (1953), in London (1955), and in Miami (1956).
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/drama/beckett.htm (725 words)

	Samuel Beckett Resources and Links
		Samuel Beckett is sui generis...He has given a voice to the decrepit and maimed and inarticulate, men and women at the end of their tether, past pose or pretense, past claim of meaningful existence.
		For Beckett, those years leading up to his most productive period had been an elaborate war nightmare — for instance here's where he had to live for six months — a nightmare Beckett never wrote about directly although allusions to it are everywhere in his texts of the postwar decade.
		Beckett's most famous plays on video, presented by the San Quentin Drama Workshop using Beckett's stage directions, are frequently available on video cassette (please inquire), and there are tentative plans to eventually release them on DVD.
	www.samuel-beckett.net (8319 words)

	Beckett, Samuel
		Samuel Beckett was born in a suburb of Dublin.
		Beckett continued to live in Paris, but most of his writing was done in a small house secluded in the Marne valley, a short drive from Paris.
		The dominating influences on Beckett's thought were undoubtedly the Italian poet Dante, the French philosopher René Descartes, the 17th-century Dutch philosopher Arnold Geulincx--a pupil of Descartes who dealt with the question of how the physical and the spiritual sides of man interact--and, finally, his fellow Irishman and revered friend, James Joyce.
	www.britannica.com /nobel/micro/59_4.html (2411 words)

	Biography of Samuel Beckett - Dramatist
		Here Beckett explores the paradox of the self that can never know itself; in the very act of observing itself the self splits in two, an observing consciousness and an object that is being observed.
		Beckett's other prose works also view in various ways the entrapment and anguish of the individual in increasingly grotesque situations and the self's quest for identity from within.
		Beckett's first play, Eleutheria (1947), was published for the first time in 1995, in an English translation, after a protracted dispute between Barney Rosset, Beckett's friend and American publisher and Beckett's family and his French publishers -- who did not want it printed because Beckett himself had judged the play a failure.
	www.discoverfrance.net /France/Theatre/Beckett/beckett.shtml?webring (685 words)

	CONTEXT: R.M. Berry on Samuel Beckett
		That is, the echo in Beckett's writing does not result from puns, metaphors, symbols, analogies, or ambiguities, or from any of the other literary devices found in glossaries of literary terms.
		That is, Beckett is no more the creator of phrases like "in the dark," "no matter," "left cold," than he is the inventor of such customs as dwelling on the past or fabricating events or imagining alternate lives.
		On the contrary, Beckett's narrative seems composed of a series of actions, sometimes including the composing of other texts as one of those actions, in which the overarching question is why any of this is being done.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /context/no1/berry.html (1511 words)

	USATODAY.com - Series star Beckett set for encore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Beckett, who will open the Marlins' spring action Thursday against Baltimore, has all the stuff and a mean streak on the mound.
		Back in spring training, Beckett is leading the pack when Marlins pitchers do their running, and he's gearing up for a season he and his team hope will pick up where he left off in October.
		Beckett says his lower body is stronger, key for a pitcher over a long season.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/baseball/nl/marlins/2004-02-29-beckett_x.htm (1740 words)

	Samuel Beckett: Apmonia - Author Homepage
		Beckett was a prolific master of many genres, from novels to dramas to unique one-act plays.
		Though Beckett was not overly fond of granting interviews, this section collects stories, conversations, encounters, and remembrances.
		Beckett had an endless fascination with the human voice and the ways it could be recorded or spatially arranged.
	www.themodernword.com /beckett (672 words)

	Bohemian Ink : Samuel Beckett
		Beckett came from a Protestant Anglo-Irish family, but much of his work was first written in French.
		Beckett's entire literary output, the narrative prose as well as the dramatic works, reduces basic existential problems to their most essential features.
		Thus his concerns are fundamental, but never simplistic--the evanescence of life; time and eternity; the individual's sense of loneliness and alienation as a result of the impossibility of establishing genuine communication and contact with others; the mystery of self.
	www.levity.com /corduroy/beckett.htm (1054 words)

	ESPN.com: Boston Red Sox Player Card
		Beckett has tinkered with a splitter but has yet to develop the confidence to throw it regularly in tight spots.
		The Red Sox and pitcher Josh Beckett settled their arbitration case Saturday, agreeing to a one-year contract for $4,325,000.
		Josh Beckett, in a conference call Saturday from his offseason ranch, said he's "pumped" to be playing for the Red Sox.
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	Amazon.com: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (Everyman's Library): Books: Samuel Beckett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		And that's a fair encapsulation of Beckett's philosophy: he argues for the essential pointlessness of life--the solitary, wretched splendor of human existence--but does so in a comic rather than a tragic register, which ends up softening or even overpowering the bleakness of his initial premise.
		Beckett seeks to empty the novel of its usual recognizable objects -- plot, situation, characters -- and yet to keep the reader interested and moved.
		Here Beckett does two neat tricks over the course of the three books, first he gradually strips the story down to its very essence, that being words and sentences and phrases to the point where the story is almost pure thought processes.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375400702?v=glance (3006 words)

	Beckett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Arthur William a Beckett (1844 – 1909), English journalist and man of letters
		Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe (1816 – 1905)
		Ernest Beckett, 2nd Baron Grimthorpe (1856 – 1917)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beckett (221 words)

	Beckett Notes @ Theatre with Anatoly
		Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1969 and died in 1989 in Paris.
		Beckett is believed to have said that the name Godot comes from the French "godillot" meaning a military boot.
		Beckett fought in the war and so spending long periods of time waiting for messages to arrive would have been commonplace for him.
	script.vtheatre.net /beckett.html (3612 words)

	R.W. Beckett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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	R.W. Beckett Corporation - Homeowner Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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	Amazon.com: Endgame and Act Without Words: Books: Samuel Beckett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Beckett's literature can so often be prided on portraying the struggle of the pointlessness of existence versus the hope that is created by the denial that all humans are immersed in.
		All hope in Beckett's theatre is ironic and only meant to be seen as a bi-product of human desperation, however this ironic hope is the element of his plays that make them relevant to the human condition.
		Beckett called this "the power of the text to claw." Then before you proceed to explain what is happening, please stop and give Beckett credit for creating something that could do that to you, because that is what ART is. Try actually experiencing ENDGAME before you explain it and judge it.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0802150241?v=glance (1688 words)

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	Beckett on Film \| Home page
		For the first time, all 19 of Samuel Beckett's plays have been filmed, bringing together some of the world's most talented directors and actors.
		Beckett on Film was awarded the 'Best TV Drama' award at the sixth South Bank Show Awards ceremony, which took place on Wednesday 6th February 2002 at the Savoy in London.
		Voted for by a panel of industry experts and key national media, the South Bank Show awards are chaired by the show's editor and presenter, Melvyn Bragg and are regarded as a celebration of artistic achievement at the highest level.
	www.beckettonfilm.com (242 words)

	Beckett's Godot: a bundle of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The emphasis in Beckett's art is on technique, on the medium itself, but he still has to use words when he talks to us.
		Beckett is not concerned with creating personalities which change, through either growth or decay, but in presenting stylized puppets who act out a certain response to the human condition.
		There is a plot to unwind, a setting and situation to establish, conflicts to establish, characters to be developed, motives to be analyzed, causes and effects to be carefully balanced showing a necessary connections between actions and events, and in short, an entire complicate story to be presented before the audience.
	www.mala.bc.ca /www/ipp/godot.htm (3145 words)

	Samuel Beckett
		An introduction to Samuel Beckett by Paul Davies, from the Literary Encyclopedia.
		"Beckett and the Temptation of Solipsism," by Ileana Marculescu in
		Beckett uses the game of chess to explore the tension between the mathematical and symmetrical, and the organic and asymmetrical.
	www.literaryhistory.com /20thC/Beckett.htm (1314 words)

	Samuel Beckett -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Canadian actor who was adept in both classical and modern roles and was admired as one of the most outstanding interpreters of Samuel Beckett's works; his signature role was the title character in Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, for which he won an Obie award in 1960 (b.
		The term may also refer to a dramatic representation of what passes in an individual mind, as well as to a musical drama for a solo performer.
		Beckett, Irish by birth, wrote mostly in French, yet maintained an incomparable style when he translated his works into English.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9014042 (828 words)

	Beckett Comics
		Featuring a brand new DAVID MACK (KABUKI) cover, Beckett's controversial first series is finally collected into one massive volume.
		And if you identify yourself as a member of the mailing list at conventions (Beckett staff will bring the list to every con we attend), you will receive the convention special of the day - from freebies to discounts on all Beckett merchandise at the Beckett table.
		Writer Jeff Amano and artist Craig Rousseau appear to be operating on the same wavelenght, bringing an ethereal touch ot the action and drama of this tale of masterless Samurai with a duty to fulfill and honor to maintain.
	www.beckettcomics.com (649 words)

	Beckett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Beckett was founded 21 years ago by Dr. James Beckett.
		Beckett has long been known as the "Bible" of sports related
		Beckett who founded the company is a noted fan of Roberto
	www.bobblesandmore.com /Beckett.html (678 words)

	Josh Beckett Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com
		Drafted by the Florida Marlins in the 1st round (2nd pick) of the 1999 amateur draft.
		Beckett has proved himself an ace and had a career year last season despite recurring blister problems.
		View Josh Beckett's uniforms at Dressed to the Nines, a Baseball Hall of Fame on-line exhibit
	www.baseball-reference.com /b/beckejo02.shtml (407 words)

	Samuel Beckett Winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature
		Samuel Beckett Winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature
		Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot (The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett, Vol 1)
		Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Absurd (submitted by Katharena Eiermann)
	almaz.com /nobel/literature/1969a.html (223 words)

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