Given the existence …..of a personal God…. tennis … the stones … so calm … Cunard … unfinished . . .

Introduction Dermot Moran believes that “Samuel Barclay Beckett (1906–89) is the most philosophical of twentieth-century writers.” His characters exult in endless, pointless,

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1001 Ways to Die – (3) Heinrich von Kleist, Writer

2011 will mark the 200th anniversary of the death of the great German writer Heinrich von Kleist. Kleist was born

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Remembering Eugene Ionesco (Eugen Ionescu)

“Explanation separates us from astonishment which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible” This is what my friend Ana wrote

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