The Beatles were one of the most successful and influential rock bands of the 20th century. The group was formed by the "Fab Four": John Lennon (rhythm guitar, vocals), Paul McCartney (bass guitar, vocals), George Harrison (lead guitar, vocals), and Ringo Starr (drums, vocals). From Liverpool to Global Domination Formed in Liverpool in 1960, they dominated the British and international charts from 1962 to 1970. In the early 1960s, their enormous popularity sparked a global phenomenon known as "Beatlemania." As their music grew in sophistication—led by primary songwriters Lennon and McCartney—the band evolved from pop idols into the embodiment of the 1960s counterculture. They experimented with psychedelia, Indian classical music, and studio techniques that changed the face of the recording industry forever. A Prolific Legacy The Beatles wrote over 200 songs (including 186 original compositions released during their active years). Their catalog includes timeless mast...
After graduating from Trinity College, he was appointed English lecturer at the École Normal Supérieure in Paris and, consequently, moved to Paris.
There he came into contact with the French and foreign avant-garde intellectuals and artists of the 1930s such as James Joyce.
He joined the French Resistance during World War II and, in order to escape the Gestapo Police, he worked undercover as a farm labourer in the Avignon area.
He worked as translator and wrote some novels like the trilogy Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable.
These works were written in French and translated in English by Beckett due to achieve greater discipline and economy of expression, as dictated by his main goal: an attempt to explore and describe the human condition.
He became famous thanks to his major play Waiting for Godot and spent the rest of his life writing pays, some for the cinema, radio and television until his death in 1989.
In 1969 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Beckett is considered the father of theatre of the Absurd because his plays always deal with confinement, the inability to communicate and loneliss.
In Endgame (1957), for example, the protagonist Hamm and his parents are legless and their servant is only a man who can walk.
In Krapp’s last tape (1958) an old man listens to a tape recorded when he was younger, and maybe happier. The confessions of the voice on the tape seem to his those of a total stranger.
Finally, Happy days (1961), a play with only two characters, describes the human impotence and its negation: a woman is buried to the waist in Act I and, then, to the neck in Act II, and a man can only crawl on all fours.
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