Another “McDonagh’s file” about the relationship between Beckett and Martin McDonagh, on one of the thorniest issue. Being alive is for Samuel Beckett the original sin. This is the reason why in Beckett’s works transpires his hatred for children, crystallized in the famous quote from All That Fall: Did you …
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The most important text of Irish (European?) contemporary literature, Ulysses, was not written in Ireland. The most important author of Irish (European?) contemporary theatre wrote almost nothing in Ireland and, to better distance himself from Ireland, he wrote in French and German, too. James Joyce and Samuel Beckett are cold …
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