ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Beckett is most famous for his play En attendant Godot (Waiting for Godot; 1953). Like most of his works after 1947, the play was first written in French. Beckett worked on the play between October 1948 and January 1949. His partner, Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil, was integral to its success.

Detailed explanation-2: -Between 1951 and 1953, Beckett wrote his most famous novels, the trilogy Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnameable. Waiting for Godot, Beckett’s first play, was written originally in French in 1948 (Beckett himself subsequently translated the play into English). It premiered at a tiny theater in Paris in 1953.

Detailed explanation-3: -Samuel Beckett, in full Samuel Barclay Beckett, (born April 13?, 1906, Foxrock, County Dublin, Ireland-died December 22, 1989, Paris, France), author, critic, and playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969.

Detailed explanation-4: -Also, in 1947, he wrote his first play, Eleutheria, which he would not allow to be published during his lifetime and which, after his death, became a cause of great controversy when Beckett’s American publisher, Barney Rosset, released an English translation against the wishes of the Beckett estate.