![]() ![]() I last TAUGHT Waiting For Godot about 20 or more years ago and I hadn’t read it since. I don’t trust what author’s say about their work, and I’m not much keen or looking to lives of authors and such background to understand literature. My own attitude toward literature has been one of a textual analyst. Beckett claims it is not an Existentialist play and critics tend to lump it into the rather non-descript category of theater of the absurd. Samuel Beckett himself, and many critics would disapprove. I didn’t use it all the time, but must have included it in the syllabus of that course some 6-8 times over the years. Soon I adopted it into a course which I taught off and on for more than 30 years: Existentialist Literature. I was deeply intrigued by it and the next day headed to the library to get a copy to read. I first encountered this play in a performance at the university where I was teaching in the mid-1960s. Translated from the French be Samuel Beckett New York: Grove Press, 1982 from 1954 original Book review - By Samuel Beckett - WAITING FOR GODOT ![]()
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