Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett left Dublin for Paris, worked for Joyce, fought with the Resistance, and after the war wrote in French, he said, because it was easier to write without style. Waiting for Godot, in which two tramps wait by a tree for someone who never comes, was performed in 1953 and changed the theatre; Endgame, Krapp’s Last Tape and the trilogy of novels followed, each with less. He won the Nobel Prize in 1969 and gave the money away. His last works are a few pages long, and the last words of The Unnamable are: I can’t go on, I’ll go on.