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Josh Showbun

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Samuel Beckett by Mario Dondero, 1950s

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Vladimir and Estragon (Nathan Lane and Bill Irwin in "Waiting for Godot)

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Draff: Samuel Beckett Conference, TCD 2016

Samuel Beckett

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Apieceofmonologue

Samuel Beckett. Beckett risked his life as part of the French resistance. He was awarded the Croix de guerre and the Médaille de la Résistance by the French government for his efforts fighting German occupation. Add that to a Nobel Prize for Literature, and you have a significant figure.

Samuel Beckett

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Beckett

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That’s how it is on this bitch of an earth — but does it float

Samuel Beckett (Ireland/France, 20c)

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Photos de Samuel Beckett - Babelio.com

Samuel Beckett, 1964 à New York

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Galerie Verdeau

Samuel Beckett, 1986 => 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 - Samuel Beckett: What would I do without this world