by Samuel Beckett · Faber & Faber · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571058082
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«Waiting for Godot» is the play by Samuel Beckett, published by Faber & Faber in paperback (94 pages, in English).
In this tragicomedy in two acts, Vladimir and Estragon wait by a tree for a mysterious character named Godot, with whom they seem to have an appointment. Meanwhile, they talk about time, memory and the meaning of life in a circular dialogue that combines humor and desolation, in one of the foundational works of the theater of the absurd.
Subtitled «A Tragicomedy in Two Acts», it premiered in Paris in 1953 as «En attendant Godot», its original French version.
For students of literature and theater, and for readers who want to delve into a landmark work of twentieth-century theater.
Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish novelist, playwright, poet, and literary critic. Writing in both English and French, his literary and theatrical works feature bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic episodes of life, coupled with black comedy and literary nonsense. Beckett is widely regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century, credited with transforming modern theatre. As a major figure of Irish literature, he is best known for his tragicomedy play Waiting for Godot (1953). For his foundational contribution to both literature and theatre, Beckett received the 1969 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."
