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Being controversial for his time and winning a Nobel Prize has kept Beckett in the spotlight to this day. His literature is considered to be very groundbreaking and has created new ways of writing and theater being one of the earliest and most influential of the realist tradition. He’s had a wide impact on experimental writing. Many 20th century composers also have written music based off of his plays.
He was also a Resistance Fighter in World War II. During World War II, Samuel Beckett’s Irish citizenship allowed him to remain in Paris as a citizen of a neutral country. He fought in the resistance movement until 1942 when members of his group were arrested by the Gestapo. He and Suzanne fled to the unoccupied zone until the end of the war.

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- "I would suggest the answer lies in its ambiguities. So much is suggested rather than explicitly stated," says Prof Knowlson.
- "People can read into it what they want to read into it."“I had little talent for happiness.” - samuel backett
- "Often recalled as the lonely genius of modernism" - Robert McCrum
- “Beckett was very interested, not just in plot and story, but in language, its structure and form. Because of that it’s inevitable that it makes room for, and inspires artists,” - Hegarty Lovett

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- Birth: 13 April 1906
- Death: 22 December 1989
- Won the Nobel Prize: 1969
- He was born and grew up in Dublin, Ireland.
- Moved to Paris in 1928
-In 1931 he travelled around Britain, France and Germany writing and occasionally working.
- He then returned to Paris in 1937
- He wrote in both French and English.
- World War II:
-  Because he was still technically an Irish citizen while living in Paris, he was able to stay home throughout World War II
- Fought in a resistance movement until 1942 when certain members of the group were arrested. This led to him and his wife ran away.
- After the war he was awarded Croix de Guerre for his bravery.
- After World War II, Beckett went on to write an enormous amount including things like Eleutheria, Waiting for Godot, Endgame, the novels Malloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, and Mercier et Camier, all in the span of 5 years.

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Samuel Barclay Beckett, born April 13, 1906, was an irish author, critic, and playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. He wrote in both Frenchand English and is perhaps best known for his plays, especially En attendant Godot (Waiting for Godot).

BECKETT BROKE LITERARY RULES BY WRITING BOOKS WITHOUT CHARACTERS AND PLOT.

Considered one of the last modernist, or often the first Postmodernist, Beckett wrote novels and plays with ver few characters, minimal plot, and scenery. his plays we dubbed the “Theatre of the Absurd,” such as his most famous one, Waiting For Godot, which instead of telling a story liek regular novel, pessimistically portray the human condition as one that is hopeless and meaningless. The minimal characters and plot reflect this bleak view of life. many say is so famous because of his radical and influential writing styles that were largely previously unheard of during his time and ours still, his writing style is so drastically different from regular novels ands techniques and has subsequently led him and his peices of writing to greatly stand out.

Achievments throughout his lifetime

HE FELT THAT HE HAD NEVER BEEN BORN.

After his dad died in 1933, Beckett experienced night terrors, stomach pain, and depression. He became a patient of Wilfred Bion, a British psychoanalyst, for two years. During this time, he attended a Carl Jung lecture where Jung discussed a girl who had never really been born, an idea with which Beckett identified. He reportedly told close friends that he felt the same way, and much of his work explores themes of alienation, existentialism, and feelings of emptiness.

HE FOUGHT AGAINST THE NAZIS AS PART OF THE FRENCH RESISTANCE.

In World War II, Beckett participated in the French Resistance to fight against the Nazi occupation of France. Translating documents and using his apartment as an information drop, Beckett even risked arrest to fight the Nazis. After some of his friends in the French Resistance were arrested, he fled to the south of France in 1942, but he continued to help the movement. The French government later gave him the “Croix de Guerre” (Cross of War) and Médaille de la Résistance (Medal of the Resistance) for his courage and collective war efforts .

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Samuel Becket is still a controversial writer because of his questionable ideas that his work was primarily concerned with the morally degrading side of human existence, for example ‘tramps and cripples who inhabit trash cans’. Humans being in extreme situations was an idea that he dealt with. This was not because he was interested in the diseased aspect of human existence rather that he concentrated on the essential aspect of human existence which to him was that degrading side of humanity.

The play waiting for godot is believed to have changed theater and was said so by critic Peter Hall in 1955 “I have been brooding in my bath for the last hour and have come to the conclusion that the success of Waiting for Godot means the end of the theatre as we know it." There was so much public disagreement over the production that the Evening Standard Drama Awards changed “The Best New Play” category to “The Most Controversial Play of the Year” with Waiting for Godot as the first recipient in order to comply with the public

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When and why did he win a Nobel prize for Literature? Did he make an acceptance speech? If so, what did he say? If not, why not?