But with regard to Waiting for Godot we learn that “waiting“ appears – but Godot never does. When there is a name mentioned in the title, we automatically assume that this name stands for the most important character in the text. In general, a title evokes expectations and is foreshadowing the coming scene. 1.2 Title and SubtitleĪccording to “Lexikon der Weltliteratur”, the title of the play already includes past history, action and solution, sense and meaninglessness, goal and unsatisfiability. According to Beckett that was wrong and that is why he decided to refuse the price.įinally, Samuel Beckett was the most unique, singular writer in English/French since 1945. In 1969 he received the Nobel Price for Literature, but he did not accept the price because people thought, Waiting for Godot would be a potential religious play. Waiting for Godot (1954) is Beckett’s translation of his own original French version that is called En attendant Godot (1952). the idea of getting inside into the uncontrolled process of thinking of a person. The idea of the “stream of consciousness” is an on-going process of associating things, i.e. He was friends with James Joyce and was impressed by Joyce’s “stream of consciousness” – a special literary method that James Joyce used. Schwanitz 323) The central theme in his works is the meaninglessness of the human existence. Samuel Beckett is considered the master of absurdity. Furthermore, he wrote poems and novels and worked as a theatre director. He was an Anglo-Irish author and wrote in French as well as in English. Samuel Beckett was born in 1906 in Dublin and died in 1989 in Paris. Introduction 1.1 Brief information about the author (Samuel Beckett) 1.1 Brief information about the author (Samuel Beckett)ģ The Theatre and the Literature of the Absurdģ.2 Waiting for Godot – an absurdist dramaĦ Statement of authorship 1.

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