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Samuel Barclay Beckett

1906 - 1989

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Samuel Barclay Beckett

1906 - 1989

Biography and works

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UNIVERSIDADE TECNOLGICA FEDERAL DO PARAN DEPARTAMENTO ACADMICO DE LNGUAS ESTRANGEIRAS MODERNAS LETRAS PORTUGUS/INGLS LITERATURA INGLESA DO SCULO XX POESIA E TEATRO PROFESSORA MARCIA BECKER DISCENTES FELIPE BENVENUTTI FELIPE SOUTO MAIOR THIAGO GOVATSKI RODRIGO LUCIANI FARIA
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Personal Data
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Personal Data

* Explanation will follow at the end of the presentation

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Personal Data
Born in April 13th 1906 in the Foxrock suburb, Dublin, Ireland Died in December 22nd 1989 in Paris, France Playwright, avant-garde novelist, theatre director and poet Wrote in both English and French Spent, and later died, most of his life in France Was awarded with the Croix de Guerre* in 1945, the Nobel Prize* in 1969 and became a Saoi* in 1984
* Explanation will follow at the end of the presentation
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Formation
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Formation

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Formation
1911 - He went to a playschool to learn music 1919 - The autor attended to Portora Royal School in Enniskillen (the same as Oscar Wildes) 1923 - 1927 - Beckett went to Trinity College in Dublin. There he studied French, English and Italian. Then, he went to cole Normale Suprieure in Paris.

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Literary Career
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Literary Career - Beginning

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Literary Career - Beginning

Writes his rst piece of work in 1929, a critical essay called Dante...Bruno. Vico...Joyce defending Joyces work and method He ended his academic carrer in 1931, after feeling disillusioned with the post of lecturer in Trinity College. To commemorate this he wrote a poem called Gnome, which is based in Goethes Wilhelm Meistes Apprenticeship.

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Literary Career - Beginning

Thursday, May 10, 12

Literary Career - Beginning

In 1930, he returned to Trinity College as a lecturer, but left after less than two years, and began to travel throughout Europe. In 1932 he worked on his rst novel, "Dream of Fair to Middling Women". In 1935 he worked on his novel "Murphy", which still showed the heavy inuence of Joyce. In 1936 departed for extensive travels around Germany, during which time he lled several notebooks with lists of noteworthy artwork that he had seen, and also noted his distaste for the Nazi savagery which was then taking over the country.
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Interruption - WWII
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World War II

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World War II
He remained in France at the outbreak of World War II and following the 1940 occupation by Germany, Beckett joined the French Resistance, working as a courier. During the next two years, on several occasions he was almost caught by the Gestapo but in August of 1942 his unit was betrayed by a former Catholic priest and he and Suzanne ed south on foot to the safety of the small village of Roussillon, in the Vaucluse dpartement on the Provence Alpes Cote d'Azur region.

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Literary Career - Post-war

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Literary Career - Mature Work and Death

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Literary Career - Mature Work and Death

1945: Returns to Dublin for a visit. His revelations. Krapp's Last Tape (1958)
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Literary Career - Mature Work and Death

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Literary Career - Mature Work and Death

1956: Writes for radio BBC 1961: Marries Suzanne Descheveaux-Dumesnil (In 1961, in a secret civil ceremony in England) 1969: Nobel Prize. "A catastrophe" 1989: Suzanne died on 17 July. Beckett died on December 22 ( emphysema and probably Parkinson's disease).
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Notable Works
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Notable Works

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Notable Works
Murphy (1938) [novel] Molloy (1951) [novel] Malone Dies (1951) [novel] The Unnamable (1953) [novel] Waiting for Godot (1953) [play] Watt (1953) [novel] Endgame (1957) [play] Krapp's Last Tape (1958) [play] How It Is (1961) [novel]

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Writing Phases
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Writing Phase 1

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Writing Phase 1
James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can. (BECKETT, Samuel) "I realized that Joyce had gone as far as one could in the direction of knowing more, [being] in control of ones material. He was always adding to it; you only have to look at his proofs to see that. I realized that my own way was in impoverishment, in lack of knowledge and in taking away, in subtracting rather than in adding." (BECKETT, Samuel)
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Writing Phase 2

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Writing Phase 2

Bleak Tragicomic Gallows humour

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Writing Phase 3

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Writing Phase 3

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Themes
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Themes

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Themes
Cyclical, Repetitive Nature of Beginnings and Endings Endgame's opening lines repeat the word "nished," and the rest of the play hammers away at the idea that beginnings and endings are intertwined, that existence is cyclical. Beckett also makes use of repetitions to underscore the cyclical stasis inEndgame.The play systematically repeats minute movements, from how many knocks Hamm makes on a wall and how many Nagg makes on Nell's ashbin to how many steps Clov takes.
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Themes

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Themes

Light and Darkness As is often the case in literature, light connotes life and darkness connotes death.Clov says he watches his light dying in his kitchen; the unseen character Mother Pegg died of light-deprivation.

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AWARDS (the most signicant)

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AWARDS (the most signicant)

Croix de Guerre (1945) - He was awarded with the most important war decoration for foreigners for his deeds during the WWII in the french resistance Nobel Prize (1969) - He was awarded with the greatest prize of all "for his writing, which - in new forms for the novel and drama - in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation". (The Nobel Foundation) Saoi (1984) - The highest honour a person in Ireland can be bestowed upon in arts

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REFERENCES
______. Beckets Works. Available at: http://www.themodernword.com/beckett/beckett_works.html ______. Samuel (Barclay) Beckett (1906-1989). Available at: http://www.kirjasto.sci./beckett.htm ______. Samuel Beckett Biography. Available at:http://www.biographybase.com/biography/ beckett_samuel.html ______. Samuel Beckett Timeline. Available at: http://www.theatredatabase.com/20th_century/ samuel_beckett_timeline.html ______.The Samuel Beckett On-Line Resources and Links Pages. Available at: http://www.samuelbeckett.net/ WIKIPEDIA. Samuel Beckett. Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Beckett YOUTUBE. Film - Samuel Beckett (1965) FULL MOVIE. Available at: http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=Qox-KbkXITU
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