Beckett

[ bek-it ]

/ ˈbɛk ɪt /

noun

Samuel,1906–1989, Irish playwright and novelist, living in France: Nobel Prize in Literature 1969.

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The title of his first novel is taken from DeLillo, the second from Beckett.

Joshua Ferris’s New Novel Chronicles an Existential Dentist in Despair |Tom LeClair |May 6, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
This isn't a comic, it's a Beckett play with barnyard animals.

Less is Moo: The Genius of Gary Larson |Tom Doran |March 22, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
He seems to put more store these days in Glenn Beck than Beckett.

Broadway's Comeback Kid |Kevin Sessums |November 2, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
Kabakov is the Beckett of the art world, creating silences and divorcing himself from the cackle.

Is This Anti-Soviet Art? |Jimmy So |October 22, 2011 |DAILY BEAST

Growing up in Dublin, he devoured books: Joyce, Faulkner, and, yes, Beckett.

Fat, Ugly, and Famous |Nicole LaPorte |July 27, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
And he has no doubts of her—— That's a beautiful timbered house, isn't it, Mr. Beckett?

Everyman's Land |C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
Dare didn't want to join the Beckett party and didn't want to stay with it.

Everyman's Land |C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
Now, maybe I am beginning to earn a little of the affection which she and Father Beckett give me.

Everyman's Land |C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
The question was asked of Mr. Beckett, and thrown lightly as a shuttlecock over the old man's head to us in the next room.

Everyman's Land |C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
It only needed Father Beckett's practical brain and unlimited purse to turn her vague suggestion into a full-grown plan.

Everyman's Land |C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

British Dictionary definitions for beckett

Beckett

/ (ˈbɛkɪt) /

noun

Margaret Mary . Dame. born 1943, British Labour politician; leader of the House of Commons (1998–2001); secretary of state for environment, food, and rural affairs (2001–2006); foreign secretary (2006– 07)

Samuel (Barclay). 1906–89, Irish dramatist and novelist writing in French and English, whose works portray the human condition as insignificant or absurd in a bleak universe. They include the plays En attendant Godot (Waiting for Godot, 1952), Fin de partie (Endgame, 1957), and Not I (1973) and the novel Malone meurt (Malone Dies, 1951): Nobel prize for literature 1969

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