Surprisingly though, at other times, genuine poetic bursts emerge from Molloy's observations! Molloy lives his life as the anticipation of his death. Molloy operates under the assumption that we live ...

Born on April 13, 1906, Samuel Beckett remains one of Ireland’s most enigmatic and influential literary figures. Best known for his groundbreaking play "Waiting for Godot", Beckett's work ...

Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett: Into the abyss, again Faber’s new editions come with excellent introductions by Colm Tóibín, Claire-Louise Bennett and Eimear McBride ...

As the 60th anniversary of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot arrives, we pick ten of the writer's best quotes. 05 January 2013 • 7:00am Jane Bown’s Samuel Beckett portrait ...

The Letters of Samuel Beckett Volume I, 1929–1940. Edited by Martha Dow Fehsenfeld and Lois More Overbeck. Buy this book. The Letters of Samuel Beckett ...

Although Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett is known for his tragicomically inert characters, he himself was an anti-Nazi activist during World War II. Unlike the ever-absent Godot, the ...

Later, realising Beckett originally wrote the book in French I was bewildered again. It had seemed so utterly, authentically Irish. Today, 50 years on, I always slip a couple of lessons on Molloy ...

Samuel Beckett wrote to his English publishers regarding Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnameable, “I beseech you, please, no trilogy,” as if he did not want the novels to be like a table that, when ...

One of Samuel Beckett's favorite things about himself—and this depression-prone man probably didn't have many—was that he'd been born on a Good Friday that was also Friday the 13th.