Jean Paul Sartre, who popularised the existentialist movement, tells us that “existence precedes essence”. Waiting for Godot has frequently been described as an existentialist play, however – while it does have existentialist themes, it is not an existentialist play, it belongs rather, to what is known as “The Theatre of the Absurd”, focusing on absurdist fiction. His play remains one of the most magical and beautiful allegories of our time.īeckett was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature and commended for having “transformed the destitution of man into his exaltation”. Beckett’s language pioneered an expressionistic minimalism that captured post-World War II Europe. The result is a comical wordplay of poetry, landscapes, and nonsense, which has been interpreted as mankind’s inexhaustible search for meaning. The story revolves around two men waiting for someone – or something – named Godot. Waiting for Godot is a 1953 play by Samuel Beckett that has become one of the most important and enigmatic plays of the 20 th century.
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