| | Samuel Beckett Resources and Links |
 | | After World War II, literary critics in France, for whom war memories were not only painful but also embarrassing given the collaboration of the Vichy government with the Nazis, preferred to read Beckett as addressing "man's alienation" and the "human condition" rather than anything as specific as everyday life in the years of the Resistance. |
| | 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. |
| | A brief personal memoir, followed by a list of books published by Beckett's friend, John Calder, some of which are available nowhere else. |
| www.samuel-beckett.net (8286 words) |
