Samuel Beckett

:For other things named Beckett, see Beckett (disambiguation)

Beckett's legacy

Of all the English-language modernists, Beckett's work represents the most sustained attack on the realist tradition. He, more than anyone else, opened up the possibility of drama and fiction that dispense with conventional plot and the unities of place and time in order to focus on essential components of the human condition. Writers like Václav Havel, Aidan Higgins and Harold Pinter have publicly stated their indebtedness to Beckett's example, but he has had a much wider influence on experimental writing since the 1950s, from the Beat generation to the happenings of the 1960s and beyond. In an Irish context, he has exerted great influence on writers like Trevor Joyce and Catherine Walsh, who write in the modernist tradition as an alternative to the dominant realist mainstream.

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Modernists - Václav Havel - Aidan Higgins - Harold Pinter - Beat generation - Happenings - Trevor Joyce - Catherine Walsh

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Many major 20th-century-composers, including György Kurtág, Morton Feldman, Philip Glass or Heinz Holliger created musical works based on his texts.

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György Kurtág - Morton Feldman - Philip Glass - Heinz Holliger

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