Book description
His first published work of fiction (1934), More Pricks Than Kicks
is a set of ten interlocked stories, set in Dublin and involving their
adrift hero Belacqua in a series of encounters, as woman after woman
comes crashing through his solipsism. More Pricks contains in embryo
the centrifugal world of Beckett's men and women. She lifted the
lobster clear of the table. It had about thirty seconds to live. Well,
thought Belacqua, it's a quick death, God help us all. It is not.
Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin in 1906. He was educated at
Portora Royal School and Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated
in 1927. His made his poetry debut in 1930 with Whoroscope and
followed it with essays and two novels before World War Two. He wrote
one of his most famous plays, Waiting for Godot, in 1949 but it wasn't
published in English until 1954. Waiting for Godot brought Beckett
international fame and firmly established him as a leading figure in
the Theatre of the Absurd. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature
in 1961. Beckett continued to write prolifically for radio, TV and the
theatre until his death in 1989.
