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Born in Ireland. Irish parents. The fact that he lived much of his life in France does not make him French. Is James Joyce now Irish-Italian-Swiss? Is Oscar Wilde Irish-English? Edited to restore the facts of Beckett's nationality — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.255.194.208 ( talk) 22:33, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
I have removed a footnote stating "On his mother's side, he was descended from the Roe family." with a link to a PDF of "'My fortieth year had come and gone and I still throwing the javelin': Beckett’s athletics A paper given at the Beckett International Foundation Research Seminar, University of Reading, 18 June 2005" by Steven Connor. I don't know who the Roe family are; are they related to cricket? I couldn't find them in the linked paper in any case. A more user-friendly version of the article is this PDF at londonconsortium.com; it may contain some information worth adding to the article. jnestorius( talk) 16:39, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
WP:Images says "You may take a photograph with your digital camera, scanner, or integrated mobile phone, draw an image or graph digitally, perhaps with a graphics tablet, or scan drawings and photos taken with a camera and then upload the image." Anyone can draw and upload an image if appropriate, the artist doesn't need to be notable. There is no doubt that this is a fair and recognisable rendering of Beckett. It is a useful addition to the article, offering a different impression. Span ( talk) 09:33, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
We have a photo of Beckett as the main image. That was not the question. The artist's name was not included under the sketch. Maybe the editor was trying to be helpful, not self promoting. I would assume good faith and not be too quick to assume what is 'recognisable to a majority of readers'. Span ( talk) 11:11, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
The portrait of Beckett by Reginald Gray is extremely crude and unskilled. Lestrade ( talk) 16:57, 20 November 2011 (UTC)Lestrade
I've made some changes, which I'm detailing here. Simplified the genres in infobox - can't assume that absurdism is the best way to describe him. Changed modernist literature to modernism--broader, given his theatre-making (awaiting an article on modernist theatre). Added Gilles Deleuze and Theodor W. Adorno as influenced ones (both use B as a model for their aesthetics. Added theatre director to occupations: article needs some material on this. Expanded the list of notable works to include the big novel trilogy and some of the later work. I couldn't understand "philosophically minimalist". What does that mean, exactly? It's not "as a student etc. of James Joyce" that he's considered a modernist--no causal link should be there (it's more like the two bits of information are in the same general area). The various categorisations are less important, I feel, than the summary "most influential in c20th". I've cleaned up the text of the rest of the article, often removing all those the year possessives. Still needs decent citations throughout. DionysosProteus ( talk) 15:08, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
Reading through this article recently I noticed the refutation of Beckett being mistakenly identified as an existentialist, and recalled the comments made by Adorno on this issue in his essay on Endgame. I think there is a passage to the effect of 'For existentialists, existentialism swallows history, but in Beckett, history swallows existentialism'. If we're to list Adorno in the 'influenced...' section, would it be worth finding the exact existentialism quote from the source and adding it to the text? jiesenxiaxue ( talk) 11:54, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
I was re-reading the introduction to the Samuel Beckett entry and wondered if it wouldn't make sense to switch "human culture" to "human existence" so that
His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human culture, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour.
would become
His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human existence, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour.
My reason for proposing the change is that culture is simultaneously too vague and too specific. Are we speaking of culture in terms of high culture and low culture or are we speaking of material culture? Are we speaking about civilization? Western civilization? The phrase doesn't make much sense to me.
I recognize that the word "culture" might have been chosen to avoid the existentialist-sounding "condition" but it seems to me that, although Beckett himself was not an existentialist, he was very much concerned with human existence in general. Consider Beckett's early play Eleuthéria:
Yesterday I set forth [...] the manner in which I view the problem of human existence, for a problem it is, in my opinion, despite the efforts being made to demonstrate the contrary (111).
or
It's clear. [...] Existence so weighs him down that he prefers to cancel himself out (119).
Likewise, in Endgame, Hamm is terribly distressed by the prospect "humanity might start [...] all over again" (33). His problem is not with culture (high/low, material, or any other) but with existence generally. I am only proposing a change to one word, but I think it is a significant one nevertheless. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Friesenmp ( talk • contribs) 22:24, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
In the article, periods are placed outside of quotation marks. Shouldn't they be inside? Lestrade ( talk) 00:25, 12 January 2012 (UTC)Lestrade
The reference note regarding the quote from Peggy Guggenheim claims that Beckett was "looed by apathia." What does the verb "loo" mean? Lestrade ( talk) 00:39, 12 January 2012 (UTC)Lestrade
Modern contemporary art is not concerned with naturalistic representation. This is fine, except when portraiture is attempted. The Irish commemorative coin and the painting by Reginald Gray appear crude and childish. If depictions of Beckett's face are made by artists, then the artists need to possess a certain level of skill. Reversion to pre-20th century quality is necessary. Otherwise, the depiction is almost comical. Lestrade ( talk) 16:34, 12 January 2012 (UTC)Lestrade
In Please Don't Eat the Daisies, David Niven cries, "I shall yell tripe when tripe is served." Let us retain the crude portrait because it was produced by an internationally "recognized" artist. If we see enough bad art, we'll eventually get used to it and it will become standard. Lestrade ( talk) 16:57, 14 January 2012 (UTC)Lestrade
The Andre The Giant article, plus some other websites [1] [2] say he did.
Two questions:
I added some links about for his one-act fragment, Human Wishes. I had no idea the work existed, and came to it while researching Samuel Johnson. However, I did include it in the list of "Dramatic Works" namely because I found it had just as good a reason to be there as Eleutheria, which is also technically a fragment. That, and there is a lot of commentary on the fragment as it relates to the tiny bits and pieces we can find about Beckett's development; namely Harold Bloom in the Western Canon as well as commentators in Grove's "Complete Works". I will add and source those later. If it is a big problem, let me know. -- Artimaean ( talk) 04:36, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
On the article as currently written: 1) Why did he fall out with his Mother? 2)Did something in particular happen to him in Ireland that he said he 'preferred Paris at war to Ireland at peace' and stayed in Paris throughout the Nazi occupation? 3) Did he have any children? 4) Is the article implying he had a 30-40 year long affair with Barbara Bray while being married to his wife Suzanne? 79.97.154.238 ( talk) 15:21, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
It was unsubstantiated and, moreover, incorrect. The phrase Jung used was not "not being properly born." It was "never been born entirely." Jung, Carl Gustave. The Collected Works of Carl Gustave Jung, Vol. 18, trans. R.F.C.Hull, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1966-79, p.96. The talk was never on the topic of "not being properly born." It was on the topic of complexes. The phrase comes from the question and answer session following the talk, where Jung referred to one of his former patients to illustrate a point about chilren who are unable to escape living in archetypal dreams.
Perhaps more importantly, the off-hand mention of Jung's lecture seeks to mislead the reader into attributing a greater role that encounter had on Beckett than there is reason to believe. While there is scholarship that sees parallels to Jung's theory of complexes in Beckett's works, most psychoanalytic scholarship, especially those by psychoanalysts, find Bion's influence far more salient. Moreover, while Jung's lecture may have provided Beckett with an interesting phrase, Beckett had already had exposure to Jung from reading him long before attending the lecture. Beckett's attendance at the lecture is better placed in a separate article focusing on Beckett and Psychoanalysis than as a throwaway, unsubstantiated comment that implies a host of things that one simply cannot take for granted (and that scholarship does not take for granted).
Pensiveneko ( talk) 13:34, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
While there are many writers whose internal struggles with religion define their growths as an independent thinker, there is no reason to believe Beckett is such a writer. The section on Christianity seems to be thrown in with the assumption that every writer, or every Irish writer of Beckett's time, must have had a defining relationship to Christianity. Yet the quote from Beckett that was supplied to illustrate that point clearly states that Beckett saw worship as irrelevant. There is simply no reason to include a section pondering whether Beckett was an atheist or an agnostic, or whether his not being a Christian came from Anglican or Catholic sources.
Pensiveneko ( talk) 13:49, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
The list of works fails to acknowledge the fact that Beckett first wrote some works in French, including Waiting for Godot. Rwood128 ( talk) 21:04, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
The dating of Beckett's works is tricky. Furthermore some dates given here are for when the work was written, rather than the date it was first published. With plays I'm presuming that the date of the first performance should be used, and the date the text was published used only if it was earlier (though this needs to be indicated)? If I can find the time I'll try and correct dates, and I'll indicate my sources. When a work was published long after it was written it would be useful to include the earlier date. Rwood128 ( talk) 14:30, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
What is the criteria for the works selected for inclusion in the 'Beckett editions' section, and how does this section relate to the earlier 'Selected works'? Is it needed? Rwood128 ( talk) 16:06, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
Redirected the page on "Worstword Ho" to this one since it does not seem to notable on its own and the article had almost no unique information. SarahTheEntwife ( talk) 14:44, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
The pimp solicited Beckett for ... what? -- Dweller ( talk) 15:40, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
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It is good to see that this article mentions Beckett's collaboration with James Joyce. I have heard that Beckett tried to translate part of Finnegans Wake into French - if anybody knows anything about this, it could go in the article. Vorbee ( talk) 09:14, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
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I’ve recently been trying, through some online research, to gain good ideas of the levels of reception for Beckett’s plays. I noticed that Long Wharf Theatre lists Play as one of his well-known plays along with Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Krapp’s Last Tape, and Happy Days — but what I’ve read in some other sources about Beckett’s literary career does not lead me to think that this is a renowned work of his. AndrewOne ( talk) 20:11, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
I noticed that Samuel Beckett by Edmund S. Valtman ppmsc.07951.jpg in "works" was not displayed correctly and tried to fix it. But I could not. It works in the preview. But when published the image is not shown.-- NisansaDdS ( talk) 11:19, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
Opinions on mentioning Waiting for Godot in the lead? I suspect it's his best-known work by an order of magnitude and it surprised me not to see it. 2607:FEA8:86DF:ADD0:B831:9C8B:613C:77ED ( talk) 22:12, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
In Later_life_and_death the 3rd sentence of the 2nd paragraph is "Beckett seems to have been immediately attracted by her and she to him.". Looking at various sites [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] I wonder if "by her" should be "to her". Mcljlm ( talk) 18:10, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
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Born in Ireland. Irish parents. The fact that he lived much of his life in France does not make him French. Is James Joyce now Irish-Italian-Swiss? Is Oscar Wilde Irish-English? Edited to restore the facts of Beckett's nationality — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.255.194.208 ( talk) 22:33, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
I have removed a footnote stating "On his mother's side, he was descended from the Roe family." with a link to a PDF of "'My fortieth year had come and gone and I still throwing the javelin': Beckett’s athletics A paper given at the Beckett International Foundation Research Seminar, University of Reading, 18 June 2005" by Steven Connor. I don't know who the Roe family are; are they related to cricket? I couldn't find them in the linked paper in any case. A more user-friendly version of the article is this PDF at londonconsortium.com; it may contain some information worth adding to the article. jnestorius( talk) 16:39, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
WP:Images says "You may take a photograph with your digital camera, scanner, or integrated mobile phone, draw an image or graph digitally, perhaps with a graphics tablet, or scan drawings and photos taken with a camera and then upload the image." Anyone can draw and upload an image if appropriate, the artist doesn't need to be notable. There is no doubt that this is a fair and recognisable rendering of Beckett. It is a useful addition to the article, offering a different impression. Span ( talk) 09:33, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
We have a photo of Beckett as the main image. That was not the question. The artist's name was not included under the sketch. Maybe the editor was trying to be helpful, not self promoting. I would assume good faith and not be too quick to assume what is 'recognisable to a majority of readers'. Span ( talk) 11:11, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
The portrait of Beckett by Reginald Gray is extremely crude and unskilled. Lestrade ( talk) 16:57, 20 November 2011 (UTC)Lestrade
I've made some changes, which I'm detailing here. Simplified the genres in infobox - can't assume that absurdism is the best way to describe him. Changed modernist literature to modernism--broader, given his theatre-making (awaiting an article on modernist theatre). Added Gilles Deleuze and Theodor W. Adorno as influenced ones (both use B as a model for their aesthetics. Added theatre director to occupations: article needs some material on this. Expanded the list of notable works to include the big novel trilogy and some of the later work. I couldn't understand "philosophically minimalist". What does that mean, exactly? It's not "as a student etc. of James Joyce" that he's considered a modernist--no causal link should be there (it's more like the two bits of information are in the same general area). The various categorisations are less important, I feel, than the summary "most influential in c20th". I've cleaned up the text of the rest of the article, often removing all those the year possessives. Still needs decent citations throughout. DionysosProteus ( talk) 15:08, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
Reading through this article recently I noticed the refutation of Beckett being mistakenly identified as an existentialist, and recalled the comments made by Adorno on this issue in his essay on Endgame. I think there is a passage to the effect of 'For existentialists, existentialism swallows history, but in Beckett, history swallows existentialism'. If we're to list Adorno in the 'influenced...' section, would it be worth finding the exact existentialism quote from the source and adding it to the text? jiesenxiaxue ( talk) 11:54, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
I was re-reading the introduction to the Samuel Beckett entry and wondered if it wouldn't make sense to switch "human culture" to "human existence" so that
His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human culture, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour.
would become
His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human existence, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour.
My reason for proposing the change is that culture is simultaneously too vague and too specific. Are we speaking of culture in terms of high culture and low culture or are we speaking of material culture? Are we speaking about civilization? Western civilization? The phrase doesn't make much sense to me.
I recognize that the word "culture" might have been chosen to avoid the existentialist-sounding "condition" but it seems to me that, although Beckett himself was not an existentialist, he was very much concerned with human existence in general. Consider Beckett's early play Eleuthéria:
Yesterday I set forth [...] the manner in which I view the problem of human existence, for a problem it is, in my opinion, despite the efforts being made to demonstrate the contrary (111).
or
It's clear. [...] Existence so weighs him down that he prefers to cancel himself out (119).
Likewise, in Endgame, Hamm is terribly distressed by the prospect "humanity might start [...] all over again" (33). His problem is not with culture (high/low, material, or any other) but with existence generally. I am only proposing a change to one word, but I think it is a significant one nevertheless. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Friesenmp ( talk • contribs) 22:24, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
In the article, periods are placed outside of quotation marks. Shouldn't they be inside? Lestrade ( talk) 00:25, 12 January 2012 (UTC)Lestrade
The reference note regarding the quote from Peggy Guggenheim claims that Beckett was "looed by apathia." What does the verb "loo" mean? Lestrade ( talk) 00:39, 12 January 2012 (UTC)Lestrade
Modern contemporary art is not concerned with naturalistic representation. This is fine, except when portraiture is attempted. The Irish commemorative coin and the painting by Reginald Gray appear crude and childish. If depictions of Beckett's face are made by artists, then the artists need to possess a certain level of skill. Reversion to pre-20th century quality is necessary. Otherwise, the depiction is almost comical. Lestrade ( talk) 16:34, 12 January 2012 (UTC)Lestrade
In Please Don't Eat the Daisies, David Niven cries, "I shall yell tripe when tripe is served." Let us retain the crude portrait because it was produced by an internationally "recognized" artist. If we see enough bad art, we'll eventually get used to it and it will become standard. Lestrade ( talk) 16:57, 14 January 2012 (UTC)Lestrade
The Andre The Giant article, plus some other websites [1] [2] say he did.
Two questions:
I added some links about for his one-act fragment, Human Wishes. I had no idea the work existed, and came to it while researching Samuel Johnson. However, I did include it in the list of "Dramatic Works" namely because I found it had just as good a reason to be there as Eleutheria, which is also technically a fragment. That, and there is a lot of commentary on the fragment as it relates to the tiny bits and pieces we can find about Beckett's development; namely Harold Bloom in the Western Canon as well as commentators in Grove's "Complete Works". I will add and source those later. If it is a big problem, let me know. -- Artimaean ( talk) 04:36, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
On the article as currently written: 1) Why did he fall out with his Mother? 2)Did something in particular happen to him in Ireland that he said he 'preferred Paris at war to Ireland at peace' and stayed in Paris throughout the Nazi occupation? 3) Did he have any children? 4) Is the article implying he had a 30-40 year long affair with Barbara Bray while being married to his wife Suzanne? 79.97.154.238 ( talk) 15:21, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
It was unsubstantiated and, moreover, incorrect. The phrase Jung used was not "not being properly born." It was "never been born entirely." Jung, Carl Gustave. The Collected Works of Carl Gustave Jung, Vol. 18, trans. R.F.C.Hull, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1966-79, p.96. The talk was never on the topic of "not being properly born." It was on the topic of complexes. The phrase comes from the question and answer session following the talk, where Jung referred to one of his former patients to illustrate a point about chilren who are unable to escape living in archetypal dreams.
Perhaps more importantly, the off-hand mention of Jung's lecture seeks to mislead the reader into attributing a greater role that encounter had on Beckett than there is reason to believe. While there is scholarship that sees parallels to Jung's theory of complexes in Beckett's works, most psychoanalytic scholarship, especially those by psychoanalysts, find Bion's influence far more salient. Moreover, while Jung's lecture may have provided Beckett with an interesting phrase, Beckett had already had exposure to Jung from reading him long before attending the lecture. Beckett's attendance at the lecture is better placed in a separate article focusing on Beckett and Psychoanalysis than as a throwaway, unsubstantiated comment that implies a host of things that one simply cannot take for granted (and that scholarship does not take for granted).
Pensiveneko ( talk) 13:34, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
While there are many writers whose internal struggles with religion define their growths as an independent thinker, there is no reason to believe Beckett is such a writer. The section on Christianity seems to be thrown in with the assumption that every writer, or every Irish writer of Beckett's time, must have had a defining relationship to Christianity. Yet the quote from Beckett that was supplied to illustrate that point clearly states that Beckett saw worship as irrelevant. There is simply no reason to include a section pondering whether Beckett was an atheist or an agnostic, or whether his not being a Christian came from Anglican or Catholic sources.
Pensiveneko ( talk) 13:49, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
The list of works fails to acknowledge the fact that Beckett first wrote some works in French, including Waiting for Godot. Rwood128 ( talk) 21:04, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
The dating of Beckett's works is tricky. Furthermore some dates given here are for when the work was written, rather than the date it was first published. With plays I'm presuming that the date of the first performance should be used, and the date the text was published used only if it was earlier (though this needs to be indicated)? If I can find the time I'll try and correct dates, and I'll indicate my sources. When a work was published long after it was written it would be useful to include the earlier date. Rwood128 ( talk) 14:30, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
What is the criteria for the works selected for inclusion in the 'Beckett editions' section, and how does this section relate to the earlier 'Selected works'? Is it needed? Rwood128 ( talk) 16:06, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
Redirected the page on "Worstword Ho" to this one since it does not seem to notable on its own and the article had almost no unique information. SarahTheEntwife ( talk) 14:44, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
The pimp solicited Beckett for ... what? -- Dweller ( talk) 15:40, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
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It is good to see that this article mentions Beckett's collaboration with James Joyce. I have heard that Beckett tried to translate part of Finnegans Wake into French - if anybody knows anything about this, it could go in the article. Vorbee ( talk) 09:14, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
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I’ve recently been trying, through some online research, to gain good ideas of the levels of reception for Beckett’s plays. I noticed that Long Wharf Theatre lists Play as one of his well-known plays along with Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Krapp’s Last Tape, and Happy Days — but what I’ve read in some other sources about Beckett’s literary career does not lead me to think that this is a renowned work of his. AndrewOne ( talk) 20:11, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
I noticed that Samuel Beckett by Edmund S. Valtman ppmsc.07951.jpg in "works" was not displayed correctly and tried to fix it. But I could not. It works in the preview. But when published the image is not shown.-- NisansaDdS ( talk) 11:19, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
Opinions on mentioning Waiting for Godot in the lead? I suspect it's his best-known work by an order of magnitude and it surprised me not to see it. 2607:FEA8:86DF:ADD0:B831:9C8B:613C:77ED ( talk) 22:12, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
In Later_life_and_death the 3rd sentence of the 2nd paragraph is "Beckett seems to have been immediately attracted by her and she to him.". Looking at various sites [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] I wonder if "by her" should be "to her". Mcljlm ( talk) 18:10, 20 April 2024 (UTC)