My wish to meet Samuel Beckett had been prompted by simple curiosity and interest in his work.

The personal quality of Samuel Beckett is similar to qualities I had found in the plays.

*" Company " ( short story ), by Samuel Beckett

Dublin has a world famous literary history, having produced many prominent literary figures, including Nobel laureates William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw and Samuel Beckett.

During the 20th century, certain Irish intellectuals made their homes in continental Europe, particularly James Joyce, and later Samuel Beckett ( who became a courier for the French Resistance ).

When he died, Samuel Beckett wrote that " Yeats is the great of our time ... he brings light as only the great dare to bring light to the issueless predicament of existence.

He was a close friend of Samuel Beckett and of J. M. Synge, providing illustrations for two of Synge's travel books, The Aran Islands and Travels in Wicklow, West Kerry and Connemara.

* Samuel Beckett.

* Samuel Beckett in his tragicomdey in two Acts Waiting for Godot, "[...] Vladimir: With all that follows.

This facilitates consideration of specific reactions to the use of technology in the First World War, and anti-technological and nihilistic aspects of the works of diverse thinkers and artists spanning the period from Friedrich Nietzsche ( 1844 – 1900 ) to Samuel Beckett ( 1906 – 1989 ).

Then there is Samuel Beckett, born in 1906, a writer with roots in the expressionist tradition of modernism, who produced works from the 1930s until the 1980s, including Molloy ( 1951 ), En attendant Godot ( 1953 ), Happy Days ( 1961 ), Rockaby ( 1981 ).

The likes of Bob Dylan, Serge Gainsbourg and The Rolling Stones combined popular musical traditions with modernist verse, adopting literary devices derived from James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, James Thurber, T. S. Eliot, Guillaume Apollinaire, Allen Ginsberg, and others.

It has also been used to describe the plays and novels of Samuel Beckett, the films of Robert Bresson, the stories of Raymond Carver, and even the automobile designs of Colin Chapman.

They collaborated on several projects that became catalysts in the development of an environmentally sensitive approach to design – including the Samuel Beckett Theatre project.

Film, directed by Alan Schneider written by Samuel Beckett and starring Buster Keaton also uses POV extensively, switching between the main character's point of view and the view of the camera as a way to illustrate Berkeley's quote " to be is to be perceived and to perceive ".

Samuel Beckett is also sometimes seen as an important precursor and influences.

Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett, New York: Grove Press.

* Samuel Beckett: in 1930, while teaching at Trinity College Dublin, Samuel Beckett read a learned paper in French on a Toulouse author named Jean du Chas, founder of a movement called Concentrism.

Samuel Beckett was also fond of Surrealists, even translating much of the poetry into English.

Adorno's posthumously published Aesthetic Theory, which he planned on dedicating to Samuel Beckett, is the culmination of a lifelong commitment to modern art which attempts to revoke the " fatal separation " of feeling and understanding long demanded by the history of philosophy and explode the privilege aesthetics accords to content over form and contemplation over immersion.

After meeting Samuel Beckett while delivering a series of lectures in Paris the same year, Adorno set to work on " Trying to Understand Endgame ," which, along with studies of Proust, Valéry and Balzac, formed the central texts of the 1961 publication of the second volume of his Notes to Literature.

* 1906 – Samuel Arnold, American conspirator ( b. 1838 )

** Samuel Beckett, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1906 )

* August 22 – Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer, physicist, and aeronautics pioneer ( d. 1906 )

1966 ); Crapsey, Adelaide: " Pierrot " ( c. 1914 ); Faulkner, William: Vision in Spring ( 1921 ); Ficke, Arthur Davison: " A Watteau Melody " ( 1913 ); Garrison, Theodosia: " Good-Bye, Pierrette " ( 1906 ), " When Pierrot Passes " ( before 1917 ); Griffith, William: Loves and Losses of Pierrot ( 1916 ), Three Poems: Pierrot, the Conjurer, Pierrot Dispossesed, The Stricken Pierrot ( 1923 ); Hughes, Langston: " A Black Pierrot " ( 1923 ), " Pierrot " ( 1926 ), " For Dead Mimes " ( 1926 ), " Heart " ( 1932 )— see " Goldweber " under External links below ; Loveman, Samuel: " In Pierrot's Garden " ( 1911 ; five poems ); Lowell, Amy: " Stravinsky's Three Pieces " ( 1915 ); Masters, Edgar Lee: " Poor Pierrot " ( 1918 ); Moore, Marianne: " To Pierrot Returning to His Orchid " ( c. 1910 ); Shelley, Melvin Geer: " Pierrot " ( 1940 ); Stevens, Wallace: " Pierrot " ( 1909, first pub.

Samuel Pierpont Langley ( August 22, 1834, Roxbury, Massachusetts – February 27, 1906, Aiken, South Carolina ) was an American astronomer, physicist, inventor of the bolometer and pioneer of aviation.

The Cherokee chief Samuel Houston Mayes established a ferry and mercantile business on the Grand River in 1906.

In 1908, a Regular Army post was established on the island, designated as Fort Mills, in honor of Brigadier General Samuel Meyers Mills, Jr., Chief of Artillery of the U. S. Army from 1905 to 1906.

Samuel Beckett ( 1906 – 89 ) published his first major work, the novel Murphy in 1938.

* Samuel Ray Delany ( 1906 – 1960 )

In 1905, Samuel Hopkins Adams published an exposé entitled " The Great American Fraud " in Collier's Weekly that led to the passage of the first Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906.

Abbot would become acting director of SAO in 1906 and in 1907, Abbot became the Director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, following the death of Samuel P. Langley.

The best known of these is Samuel Beckett ( 1906 – 1989 ), who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969.

* Samuel Baud-Bovy ( 1906 – 1986 )

* Samuel Smith ( 1836 – 1906 ), British Member of Parliament for Liverpool, 1882 – 1885 and Flintshire, 1886 – 1906

Both MacCarthys Mór are descendants of a brother, William Patrick, of Samuel Trant MacCarthy ( d. 1927 ), whose pedigree was registered in 1906 by Sir Arthur Vicars, the Ulster King of Arms, after which he decided to revive the title of MacCarthy Mór.

Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa ( July 18, 1906 – February 27, 1992 ) was a Canadian-born American academic and political figure of Japanese ancestry.

Joyce's high modernism had its influence on coming generations of Irish novelists, most notably Samuel Beckett ( 1906 – 1989 ), Brian O ' Nolan ( 1912 – 1966 ), who published as both Flann O ' Brien and Myles na Gopaleen, and Aidan Higgins ( born 1927 ).

* August 22 – Samuel Pierpont Langley ( died 1906 ), astronomer.

* Letter to Samuel W. Pennypacker from George H. Earle, Jr., May 16, 1906

* Samuel Molesworth, 8th Viscount Molesworth ( 1829 – 1906 )

* Charles Samuel Victor Allsopp, 4th Baron Hindlip ( 1906 – 1966 )