Sound Artist: Samuel Beckett

Biography

Samuel Barclay Beckett (April 13^th, 1906 – December 22^nd, 1989) was an Irish dramatist, writer, and poet. Beckett focused his work on the human culture increasingly becoming formally and philosophically modest. Many consider Beckett one of the last modernists, and to many future writers, he was considered one of the first postmodernists. In 1969, Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his “writing, which – in new forms for the novel and drama – in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation”. On December 1989, he died in Paris due to respiratory problems. After Beckett graduated with a B.A., he took the post of lectuer d’anglais in the École Normale Superieure in Paris. While he was in Paris, he was introduced to James Joyce, an Irish author. This meeting was the beginning of a beautiful friendship and would impact the young Beckett in which he would aid James by helping him search the book “Finnegans Wake”. Beckett would go on to become Joyce’s student and assistant.

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