Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett is one of the world's most famous living writers, despite the difficulty of his work and the obscurity of his personal life. In 1968 , when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, he was one of the few Nobel choices about whom nobody argued. For everyone, he is the artist of deprivation and terminal desolation, and he has expressed his vision with unique purity and power. In this important new study, the distinguished critic A. Alvarez discusses the entire corpus of Beckett's extraordinary work. Mr. Alvarez's last book was a study of suicide. THE SAVAGE GOD.