Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 - 22 December 1989) was an Irish dramatist, novelist and poet. Beckett's work is stark, fundamentally minimalist, and, according to some interpretations, deeply pessimistic about the human condition. His work grew increasingly cryptic and attenuated over his career. The perceived pessimism in Beckett's work is mitigated both by a great and often wicked sense of humour, and by the sense, for some readers, … Wikipedia
Readers of The Beckett Circle are likely to be familiar with the tribute to Beckett that appears in Exercices d'admiration by the Romanian-born French philosopher and aphorist E.M. Cioran. planetcioran.blogspot.com/2006/10/em-cioran-on-beckett.html
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-- Harold Pinter Samuel Beckett is sui generis...He has given a voice to the decrepit and maimed and inarticulate, men and women at the end of their tether, past pose or pretense, past claim of meaningful existence. samuel-beckett.net