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Samuel Beckett (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)

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Although Samuel Beckett began to write for publication in the pre-World War II period, he had little success until after the war. His first worldwide acclaim came as a dramatist, with the production of the play En attendant Godot (Waiting for Godot) first in Paris in 1952, in French, then in 1954 in London, in English. His ultimate reputation was to rest primarily on his plays, but he was also a novelist, again of major importance. His three novels Molloy (1951; English translation, 1955), Malone meurt (1951; Malone Dies, 1956),...

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