Frases de Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett
Data de nascimento: 13. Abril 1906
Data de falecimento: 22. Dezembro 1989
Samuel Beckett foi um dramaturgo e escritor irlandês.
Beckett é amplamente considerado como um dos escritores mais influentes do século XX. Fortemente influenciado por James Joyce, ele é considerado um dos últimos modernistas. Como inspiração para muitos escritores posteriores, ele às vezes também é considerado um dos primeiros pós-modernistas. Ele é um dos escritores fundamentais, no que Martin Esslin chamou de "Teatro do absurdo". Seu trabalho tornou-se cada vez mais minimalista em sua carreira mais tarde.
Recebeu o Nobel de Literatura de 1969. Utiliza nas suas obras, traduzidas em mais de trinta línguas, uma riqueza metafórica imensa, privilegiando uma visão pessimista acerca do fenômeno humano. É considerado um dos principais autores do denominado teatro do absurdo. Sua obra mais famosa tanto no Brasil como em Portugal é a peça Esperando Godot.
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Citações Samuel Beckett
„Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.“
— Samuel Beckett
Context: All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
„I did my best to go in a circle, hoping in this way to go in a straight line.“
— Samuel Beckett
Context: Having heard, or more probably read somewhere, in the days when I thought I would be well advised to educate myself, or amuse myself, or stupefy myself, or kill time, that when a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping in this way to go in a straight line. For I stopped being half-witted and became sly, whenever I took the trouble … and if I did not go in a rigorously straight line, with my system of going in a circle, at least I did not go in a circle, and that was something.
„For had I been able to conceive something worse than what I had I would have known no peace until I got it, if I know anything about myself.“
— Samuel Beckett
Context: Anything worse than what I do, without knowing what, or why, I have never been able to conceive, and that doesn’t surprise me, for I never tried. For had I been able to conceive something worse than what I had I would have known no peace until I got it, if I know anything about myself.
„What I assert, deny, question, in the present, I still can.“
— Samuel Beckett
Context: What I assert, deny, question, in the present, I still can. But mostly I shall use the various tenses of the past. For mostly I do not know, it is perhaps no longer so, it is too soon to know, I simply do not know, perhaps shall never know.
„Nothing is more real than nothing.“
— Samuel Beckett
Context: Nothing is more real than nothing. <!-- p, 16
