Vedic Horoscope for Beckett, Samuel

Irish author of prose, fiction and avant-garde plays, who established the contemporary theater of the absurd with his surrealistic "Waiting for Godot." He was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize for literature, and reluctantly accepted it after having lobbied the Swedish Academy not to bestow it. At a time when much art was being expressed as a persistent cry of aloneness in giant homogenized cultures, few voices were as persistent on the subject as his. His characteristic despair, though laced with humor, was meted out in such plays as "Endgame," and "Krapp’s Last Tape," 1960, and in novels that including "Molloy," 1951, "Malone Dies" and "The Unnamable." Brooding and sardonic, he focused on the most abhorrent aspects of life, molding them into his own style, clearly haunted by spiritual desolation. He found writing difficult, "an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness."Aaron Fischer quotes Deidre Bair's "Beckett," p.4., "At 8:00 PM (my father) went out for a walk, and when he returned, I had been born." Bair says the date is uncertain because the B.C. gives May 13, but Beckett insists it was "Good Friday, April 13."