April 13 1906 William and Mary Beckett’s second child, Samuel Barclay, is born on Good Friday. Perhaps, not only the creator of the absurd, but the revealer of one of the last twists that the avant-garde theater would take.
His first years of education were marked by the rigidity of learning at the side of his mother, at the age of 7 he entered the Protestant school at Earlsford House. In 1920 he studied at Portora Royal School, Northern Ireland. 1923 he began to frequent and study in Dublin, and that is how he became well acquainted with French and Italian literature.
On 1927 he finally gets his Bachelor of Arts degree with a specialization in Italian and French. In those years he began to meet intellectuals of the time and also where he met his best friend of all life James Joys (great writer, one of his books, El Ulises, left generations of critics and intellectuals thinking)
In the years 30` the hand of the surrealist movement moves and begins his own production, hence we know “Whoroscope”, his poem. In September he returns to Trinity College as a French teacher. 32` He abandons teaching altogether, claiming the following: How can I teach something that I don’t know?
By the year 33` his father dies and in the 3. 4 finally ends the book “The Bones of the Echo and other Presipitates”
On 1938 a madman stabs him in the street and almost kills him. When Beckett recovers, he goes to the jail to talk to the man and when he asks why he did it, the man replies “I don’t know”, that leaves Beckett thinking. Also in that year appears the first novel of the trilogy, “Murphy.”
In a turbulent year 47 ‘, having escaped from Nazism, Beckett produces “Eleutheria”, and begins the brushstrokes of the work that would make him be recognized for all eternity, “Waiting for Godot.”
Between the years 48` and 51`, He finished writing the novels, “Molloy”, “Malone Dies” and a little later he would close with “The Unnameable”.
In the year 1952 The soul of the world absurd finally appears, the base with which incredible things have been built over time, finally appears Waiting for Godot.
On 1957 Another of his works, “Final de parte”, opens in London, with which he wins the recognition of the press.
Of 60´ to 64´, does things on the radio and publishes “Happy Days” and “Krapp’s Last Tape”
In the 80s, he wrote much more mathematical and unpredictable works and focused on the cinema. The semi-directed absurdity, where the setting is important and the specific and marked in terms of movements. Produces “Ohio Impromptu” “What Where” “Catasrophe”.
On 1989 edit “Stirring Still.” Month later, on December 22, an 83-year-old Beckett dies a genius and goes down in history, forever.
Plays
Whoroscope 1930 poem written in English
Murphy 1938 written in English
Watt 1939 written in English
Mercier and Camier 1946 written in English
Molloy 1951
Malone dies 1951
Waiting for Godot 1952, English version of the work created in French En attendant Godot
The Unspeakable 1953
Texts for nothing 1955
End of game 1957, English version of the work created in French Fin de partie
The last 1958 tape, Krapp’s last tape, was written in English and adapted by Beckett into French as La dernière bande.
Happy Days 1961, was written in English and later translated into French by Beckett as Oh les beaux jours
How is 1961 radical literary experiment Eh Joe, piece written for the BBC and presented in 1966
Têtes-mortes 1967
Without 1969
First love 1970, silent comic film sketch Residua collection of four texts written between 1957 and 1966
The depopulator 1970
Pour finir encore 1976
Poems 1979
Catastrophe (dedicated to Vaclav Havel) 1982
Pavesas published by Tusquets in 1987 is a compilation of all the radio, television and theatrical works that, due to their short length, could not be published in a book
Breath Performance 1969