All That Fall (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Samuel Beckett
- First Published: 1957
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Absurdist
- Time of Work: Twentieth century
- Genres: Drama, Absurdist literature, Fantasy
- Subjects: 1950’s, Blindness or blind persons, Marriage, Death or dying, Existentialism, Diseases, Ireland or Irish people
- Locales: Dublin, Ireland
Places Discussed
Village. Unnamed rural community in Ireland that serves as the peripheral setting of the play and establishes the foundation of its humor and tragedy. While Samuel Beckett’s dramatic themes are universal in scope, they are also rooted in his native Ireland.
Country road. Road to the village that is a dangerous and toilsome place—one on which a person might be run over by a passing motor van at any moment and whose dust and filth cling to people. In a broader sense, the country road mirrors the human condition as Beckett presents it—a place where...
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