taken from: beckett's novel 'worstward ho'.about the quoted person:irish absurdist playwright. Samuel Beckett was born on Good Friday, April 13, 1906, near Dublin, Ireland. Beckett was consistent in his loneliness. The lonely young poet would not allow anyone to penetrate his solitude. he is well-known for his plays 'Eleutheria', Waiting for Godot (1952) and Endgame (1957).

Beckett's dramatic works do not rely on the traditional elements of drama. He trades in plot, characterization, and final solution, which had hitherto been the hallmarks of drama, for a series of concrete stage images. Language is useless, for he creates a mythical universe peopled by lonely creatures who struggle vainly to express the unexpressable. His characters exist in a terrible dreamlike vacuum, overcome by an overwhelming sense of bewilderment and grief, grotesquely attempting some form of communication, then crawling on, endlessly.

Beckett was the first of the absurdists to win international fame. His works have been translated into over twenty languages. In 1969 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He continued to write until his death in 1989, but the task grew more and more difficult with each work until, in the end, he said that each word seemed to him "an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness."