ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Beckett says that he began to write in French because he wanted to get away from his mother tongue; writing in English somehow made it come too easy. The French language offered greater clarity and forced him to think more fundamentally, to write with greater economy.

Detailed explanation-2: -He wrote a trilogy of novels in the 1950s as well as famous plays like Waiting for Godot. In 1969 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. His later works included poetry and short story collections and novellas. Critical responses to Beckett’s work often invoked somewhat colorful prose.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -Beckett translated his novel Murphy (1937) into French in 1938. In the years following the war he published mostly in French, including his most famous work En attendant Godot (1953), commonly known by its English title Waiting for Godot.