Beckett

[bek-it]

noun

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

Beckett

/ ˈbɛkɪt /

noun

1. 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)

2. 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

Example Sentences

Stamina is what’s required of those born into an earthly reality, for which, to quote mordant Beckett, there is no cure.

Read more on Los Angeles Times

There’s also a stray reference to “Waiting for Godot” and, just like Beckett’s classic play, Panahi’s film is elemental, its every understated moment fraught with meaning.

Read more on Los Angeles Times

"Really ghastly," says Dame Margaret Beckett, who was number two under John Smith in the 1990s.

Read more on BBC

Casting Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, stars of the goofball comedy “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure,” in Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” sounds like an idea dreamed up by undergraduate theater nerds smoking strong weed.

Read more on The Wall Street Journal

Variously compared to Irish writer Samuel Beckett and Russia's Fyodor Dostoyevsky, late American critic Susan Sontag called Krasznahorkai "the contemporary Hungarian master of apocalypse who inspires comparison with Gogol and Melville".

Read more on Barron's