Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), the Irish novelist, playwright, and poet who became French by adoption, was one of the most original and important writers of the century. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1969. Samuel Beckett stood apart from the lite...

Samuel Beckett, whose play Waiting for Godot has influenced several generations of contemporary playwrights throughout the world, was a dramatist who considered himself a much better novelist. He thought of his plays as diversions undertaken at times whe...

Samuel Beckett is an Irishman who has lived in France since 1938 and who has written much of his drama and fiction in French. The phenomenal success of his play En attendant Godot (1952; published in English as Waiting for Godot, 1954) has made him known...

Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Bibliography Auerbach, Erich, Dante, Poet of the Secular World, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961. Barbi, Michele, Life of Dante, translated and edited by Paul Ruggiers, Berkeley - L.A.: Univ. of California, Press, 1954. Bergin, Thomas G., Dante, Boston: Houghton Mifflin,...

Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Introduction The Divine Comedy: This is an epic poem depicting an imaginary journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. It is presented in the form of a vision experienced by the author in the year 1300, when, as he puts it, he...