Samuel Beckett

A first edition in English of Beckett's influential and enigmatic "tragicomedy in two acts."

• Samuel Beckett (Irish).
• New York: Grove Press, 1954.
• 60 pages.
• Bound in the original blind-stamped black cloth with silver and gilt lettering to spine, in original unclipped ($4.75) black-and-white photographic dust jacket designed by Marshall Lee, with red endpapers, Grove Press postcard laid in.

The defining drama of the twentieth century and Beckett's masterpiece; written in French, like all of Beckett's post-World War II works, and translated by himself into the English of this edition. Powerful, frustrating, agitating and allowing for endless allegorical interpretations, the text often bewilders, always disturbs, but never alienates. Vladimir and Estragon wait in their obscure holding place, captives of an unseen tormentor or their own self-inflicted tragedy of repetition, and the audience waits with them.