Beckett
BACKGROUND
Samuel Beckett was born in 1906 just outside of Dublin, in what now the Republic of Eire, or Southern Ireland. He attended school in Northern Ireland and then studied modern languages at Trinity College, Dublin. Like Harold Pinter he was a fine athlete, excelling in cricket, rugby, and boxing. After graduating first in his class he became a lecturer at the Ecole Normale Superieure, one of Paris's major universities. Here he met and was profoundly influenced by James Joyce, began to write poetry, and published his critical work on Proust--another major influence on his life. Returning to Ireland he wrote his first novel, Murphy, which was finally published after forty-two rejections--asignificant exercise in the courage and endurance of "waiting." At this time he was introduced to the stage at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. In 1937 he returned to Paris, which became his permanent home. His reasons for leaving Ireland are instructive: "I didn't like theocracy, censorship of literature." This suggests both a spiritual alienation from the autocracy of unsubstantiated beliefs, and a personal alienation from a homeland, both of which factors are apparent in his work.
Beckett
BACKGROUND
Samuel Beckett was born in 1906 just outside of Dublin, in what now the Republic of Eire, or Southern Ireland. He attended school in Northern Ireland and then studied modern languages at Trinity College, Dublin. Like Harold Pinter he was a fine athlete, excelling in cricket, rugby, and boxing. After graduating first in his class he became a lecturer at the Ecole Normale Superieure, one of Paris's major universities. Here he met and was profoundly influenced by James Joyce, began to write poetry, and published his critical work on Proust--another major influence on his life. Returning to Ireland he wrote his first novel, Murphy, which was finally published after forty-two rejections--asignificant exercise in the courage and endurance of "waiting." At this time he was introduced to the stage at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. In 1937 he returned to Paris, which became his permanent home. His reasons for leaving Ireland are instructive: "I didn't like theocracy, censorship of literature." This suggests both a spiritual alienation from the autocracy of unsubstantiated beliefs, and a personal alienation from a homeland, both of which factors are apparent in his work.
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