Beckett, Samuel Barclay
Beckett, Samuel Barclay ( 1906 – 89 ),born at Foxrock, near Dublin, the second son of a quantity surveyor, and brought up as a Protestant by a mother whom he describes as ‘profoundly religious’. He was educated at Portora Royal School, Enniskillen, and at Trinity College, Dublin, where he read English, French, and Italian. He then taught for two terms in Belfast before going to Paris as lecteur d'anglais at the École Normale Supérieure; there in 1928 he met Joyce , with whom he formed a lasting friendship. His first published work was an essay on Joyce ( 1929 ) and he assisted with the translation into French of the ‘Anna Livia Plurabelle’ section of Finnegans Wake . His first story, ‘Assumption’, appeared in transition ( 1929 ) and in 1930 he returned as lecturer to Trinity College, resigning after four terms to embark on five unsettled, solitary years in Germany, France,...
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