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Author Description Novels of <b>Samuel Barclay Beckett</b>, Irish writer, include <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/333314.Murphy" title="Murphy" rel="nofollow noopener">Murphy</a> </i> in 1938 and <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54042.Malone_Dies" title="Malone Dies" rel="nofollow noopener">Malone Dies</a> </i> in 1951; a wider audience know his absurdist plays, such as <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17716.Waiting_for_Godot" title="Waiting for Godot" rel="nofollow noopener">Waiting for Godot</a> </i> in 1952 and <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28550115.Krapp_s_Last_Tape" title="Krapp's Last Tape" rel="nofollow noopener">Krapp's Last Tape</a> </i> in 1959, and he won the Nobel Prize of 1969 for literature. <br /><br />Samuel Barclay Beckett, an avant-garde theater director and poet, lived in France for most of his adult life. He used English and French. His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black gallows humor. <br /><br />People regard most influence of Samuel Barclay Beckett of the 20th century. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5144.James_Augustine_Aloysius_Joyce" title="James Augustine Aloysius Joyce" rel="nofollow noopener">James Augustine Aloysius Joyce</a> strongly influenced him, whom people consider as one modernist. People sometimes consider him as an inspiration to many later first postmodernists. He is one of the key in what <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/43170.Martin_Esslin" title="Martin Esslin" rel="nofollow noopener">Martin Esslin</a> called the "theater of the absurd". His later career worked with increasing minimalism.<br /><br />People awarded Samuel Barclay Beckett "for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation". <br /><br />In 1984, people elected Samuel Barclay Bennett as Saoi of Aosdána. <br />

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