ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Waiting for Godot is Beckett’s translation of his own original French-language play, En attendant Godot, and is subtitled (in English only) “a tragicomedy in two acts". The original French text was composed between 9 October 1948 and 29 January 1949.

Detailed explanation-2: -Beckett composed the original play (En attendant Godot) in French between 9 October 1948 and 29 January 1949.

Detailed explanation-3: -Originally written in French as En attendant Godot, the play premiered in 1953 in Paris before opening in translation in London in 1955.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -A resident of Paris for most of his adult life, Beckett wrote in both French and English.