Samuel Beckett. One is what one is, partly at least. The only sin is the sin of being born. Samuel Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet and winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature. Beckett Directs Beckett - Waiting for Godot Part 1 (Beckett Samuel) TLS review of The Letters of Samuel Beckett, Volume One: 1929-1940. By Gabriel Josipovici The letters of some of the greatest artists of their day, of Wordsworth and Cézanne, Proust and Eliot, for example, though occasionally moving and of interest because of who they were, would never figure in anyone’s list of the ten or twenty greatest books of their time.
The letters of Keats and van Gogh, Kafka and Wallace Stevens certainly would. And so, on the evidence of this volume, would those of Samuel Beckett.