Samuel Beckett Trilogy

Samuel Beckett’s mordant and exhilarating trilogy represents the high-water mark of Modernism. Written in the late 1940s at the same time as Waiting for Godot, the Absurdist drama which brought the Irish writer international fame, these three desolate monologues on the human condition are illuminated by flashes of black humour.

Samuel Beckett is the greatest Irish novelist of the later twentieth century, and this trilogy of novels is his masterpiece – which makes it perhaps t…