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Samuel Beckett (Critical Survey of Poetry)

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Samuel Beckett is far better known for his fiction and plays than for his poetry, even though it was as a poet that he began his writing career. In fact, Beckett explored almost every literary form, writing in English and in French. His early fiction, the collection of stories More Pricks than Kicks (1934) and the novels Murphy (1938) and Watt (1953), was written originally in English, but his best-known fictions, including the trilogy of Molloy (1951; English translation, 1955), Malone meurt (1951; Malone Dies,...

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