From an inauspicious beginning at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone in 1953, followed by bewilderment among American and British audiences, Waiting for Godot has become of the most important and enigmatic plays of the past fifty years and a cornerstone of twentieth-century drama. As Clive Barnes wrote, Time catches up with genius Waiting for Godot is one of the masterpieces of the century.
The story revolves around two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone or something named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree, inhabiting a drama spun of their own...

In "Happy Days," Samuel Beckett pursues his relentless search for the meaning of existence, probing the tenuous relationships that bind one person to another, and each to the universe, top time past and time present. Once again, stripping theater to its barest essentials, "Happy Days" offers only two characters: Winnie, a woman of about fifty, and Willie, a man of about sixty.
In the first act Winnie is buried up to her waist in a mound of earth, but still has the use of her arms and few earthly possessionstoothbrush, tube of toothpaste, small mirror, revolver, handkerchief, spectacles;...

This second volume of The Letters of Samuel Beckett opens with the War years, when it was often impossible or too dangerous to correspond. The surge of letters beginning in 1945, and their variety, are matched by the outpouring and the range of Beckett's published work. Primarily written in French and later translated by the author, the work includes stories, a series of novels (Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable), essays and plays most notably Waiting for Godot. The letters chronicle a passionately committed but little known writer evolving into a figure of international reputation, and...

This book contains the English and French texts and a complete record of the genesis of each. Besides Comment C'est How It Is, O'Reilly has included L'Image and an excerpt from Comment C'est that was published later in another volume.

The acclaimed four-volume edition of the letters of one of the twentieth century's greatest literary figures.

Esperando a Godot (en frances: En attendant Godot), a veces subtitulada Tragicomedia en dos actos, es una obra perteneciente al teatro del absurdo, escrita a finales de los anos 40 por Samuel Beckett y publicada en 1952 por Editions de Minuit. Beckett escribio la obra originalmente en frances, su segunda lengua. La traduccion al ingles fue realizada por el mismo Beckett y publicada en 1955. La obra se divide en dos actos, y en ambos aparecen dos vagabundos llamados Vladimir y Estragon que esperan en vano junto a un camino a un tal Godot, con quien (quizas) tienen alguna cita. El publico nunca...