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| Samuel Barclay Beckett |
Today is the birthday of an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre
director, and poet Samuel Barclay Beckett.
Samuel Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) lived in France for most of
his adult life and wrote in both English and French. His work offers a bleak,
tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black comedy and gallows
humour. Beckett is widely regarded as among the most influential writers of the
20th century. Strongly influenced by James Joyce, he is considered one of the
last modernists. As an inspiration to many later writers, he is also sometimes
considered one of the first postmodernists. He is one of the key writers in
what Martin Esslin called the "Theatre of the Absurd". His work
became increasingly minimalist in his later career. Beckett was awarded the
1969 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his writing, which—in new forms for
the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its
elevation". Presenting a poem : Being Poet
What would
I do without this world?
what would I do
without this world faceless incurious
where to be lasts but an instant where every instant
spills in the void the ignorance of having been
without this wave where in the end
body and shadow together are engulfed
what would I do without this silence where the murmurs die
the pantings the frenzies towards succour towards love
without this sky that soars
above its ballast dust
what would I do what I did yesterday and the day before
peering out of my deadlight looking for another
wandering like me eddying far from all the living
in a convulsive space
among the voices voiceless
that throng my hiddenness
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