En Attendant Godot

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  A seminal work of twentieth-century drama, [this play] was [the author]'s first professionally produced play. It opened in Paris in 1953 at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone, and has since become a cornerstone of twentieth-century theater.</p><p>The story line evolves around two se ... (continue)

  A seminal work of twentieth-century drama, [this play] was [the author]'s first professionally produced play. It opened in Paris in 1953 at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone, and has since become a cornerstone of twentieth-century theater.</p><p>The story line evolves around two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone - or something - named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree on a barren stretch of road, inhabiting a drama spun from their own consciousness. The result is a comical wordplay of poetry, dreamscapes, and nonsense, which has been interpreted as a somber summation of mankind's inexhaustible search for meaning. Beckett's language pioneered an expressionistic minimalism that captured the existentialism of post-World War II Europe. His play remains one of the most magical and beautiful allegories of our time. </p><p>"One of the most noble and moving plays of our generation, a threnody of hope deceived and deferred but never extinguished; a play suffused with tenderness for the whole human perplexity, with phrases that come like a sharp stab of beauty and pain." - The Times (London)</p><p>"Reading Beckett for the first time is an experience like no other in modern literature." - Paul Auster

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  I can certainly state that it is because of this play that I started to love the Theatre of the Absurd. I read it a few times, both in English and French, and I saw it on stage in Milan...and every time I find something new and amazing about this work of pure genius. Plus, sumetimes in real life I f ... (continue)

  I can certainly state that it is because of this play that I started to love the Theatre of the Absurd. I read it a few times, both in English and French, and I saw it on stage in Milan...and every time I find something new and amazing about this work of pure genius. Plus, sumetimes in real life I feel like I was exactly like the protagonists of the play, lost and useless, unable to change, just waiting for God-ot.

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  We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist

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  Lolli said on Jul 10, 2008 | Add your feedback

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  Masterpiece! You absolutely need to read it and reread it... if you've ever asked to yourself what is the ultimate purpose of life.

  "We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist?"

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  It doesn't matter who or what Godot really is. Fact is, that Godot will never appear and this makes almost all interpretations of the reader possible. With some help of the theatre of the absurd (Ionesco, Camus) and existencialism one should find out what Beckett tries to tell, depending on the read ... (continue)

  It doesn't matter who or what Godot really is. Fact is, that Godot will never appear and this makes almost all interpretations of the reader possible. With some help of the theatre of the absurd (Ionesco, Camus) and existencialism one should find out what Beckett tries to tell, depending on the reader and his input of what Godot could be.

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  Elle Driver said on Aug 22, 2010 | Add your feedback

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• ISBN-10: 0023078308
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• Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co
• Pub date: Jun 01, 1963
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