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Eleutheria

Eleutheria

by SamuelBeckett (Author)

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    Paperback 1996

    $6.37
Synopsis

A young man at odds with his middle-class family, refusing to take part in normal life while accepting hand-outs from his mother, is the subject of this play. Unperformed during Beckett's lifetime, it draws on the traditions of French boulevard comedy and melodrama.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 160
 Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 23 Sep 1996
ISBN 10: 057117826X
ISBN 13: 9780571178261
Book Overview: Author won Nobel Prize for Literaturein 1969

Author Bio
Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin in 1906. He was educated at Portora Royal School and Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1927. His made his poetry debut in 1930 with Whoroscope and followed it with essays and two novels before World War Two. He wrote one of his most famous plays, Waiting for Godot, in 1949 but it wasn't published in English until 1954. Waiting for Godot brought Beckett international fame and firmly established him as a leading figure in the Theatre of the Absurd. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1961. Beckett continued to write prolifically for radio, TV and the theatre until his death in 1989.