Samuel Beckett: As the Story Was Told
- Episode aired Apr 13, 1996
- 1h 44m
The life of Irish novelist, poet, and playwright Samuel Beckett is profiled from his Dublin childhood, to his days in Paris, associating with Picasso and Chagall, to old age. Excerpts from a... Read allThe life of Irish novelist, poet, and playwright Samuel Beckett is profiled from his Dublin childhood, to his days in Paris, associating with Picasso and Chagall, to old age. Excerpts from a performance of the semiautobiographical Krapp's Last Tape and previously unpublished lett... Read allThe life of Irish novelist, poet, and playwright Samuel Beckett is profiled from his Dublin childhood, to his days in Paris, associating with Picasso and Chagall, to old age. Excerpts from a performance of the semiautobiographical Krapp's Last Tape and previously unpublished letters tell the story, along with the remembrances of Beckett's lifelong friend and publisher... Read all