On the concrete wall behind him were large framed images of Queen Elizabeth and literary icon Samuel Beckett.
Along the way he was championed by Samuel Beckett, who provided some blurbs and financial support for Johnson.
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But his greatest influence was Samuel Beckett, who was also his greatest friend.
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The novels of Charles Dickens, the Bronte Sisters, the plays of Samuel Beckett washed down with the poetry of Shelley were my teachers.
The journey from nowhere to nowhere becomes an absurdist quest, as if John Ford had been overtaken along the trail by Samuel Beckett.
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If Wheeler seems comfortable in this Samuel Beckett world where the truth is a lie and only lies lead to the truth, perhaps it's because he's been living there a long time.
He was no longer an English author, or an Irish author, or a Russian author, he was simply an Author: think of James Joyce, Christopher Isherwood, Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Beckett, Joseph Brodsky.
Although a fine early example of Mr. Nauman's anxiety-producing art, featuring a series of runners tirelessly going nowhere, as if in the annual Samuel Beckett marathon, it provokes the question: Does he belong in a retrospective about artists in Buffalo?
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Harvard undergraduates are on spring break this week, so the dorm windows ringing the Yard were absent of the banners that usually herald, say, a big football game against Yale or a particularly avant-garde student production of a Samuel Beckett play.
The first time she had visited my room, she had, after examining my meagre shelf of books, spent several minutes studying the mimeographed photo of Samuel Beckett sitting on the terrace of the Closerie des Lilas that I had taped to the wall.
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