by Samuel Beckett · Giulio Einaudi Editore · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788806062477
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Waiting for Godot is a play by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett. It was originally written in French, with the title En attendant Godot, and premiered in 1953. The play is about two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, who wait in vain for a character named Godot, with whom they have an appointment. The play is considered one of the most important of the theater of the absurd and has been interpreted in many different ways.
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."
