Samuel Beckett The Grove Centenary Edition Dramatic Works

"I am always deeply puzzled when people say of Beckett, 'Oh, he's so difficult!'--or avant garde, or complex, or ... ambiguous. It is the profoundest nonsense, for Beckett is perhaps the most naturalistic playwright I know of, as well as the clearest and least obscure. The 'obscurity' resides in the assumption of obscurity. I know that if Beckett's outdoor plays were set on suburban terraces, and the indoor ones just inside those terraces, in suburban living rooms, everyone would be the wiser, certainly the less puzzled. We are most comfortable with the familiar."Beckett, Samuel is the author of 'Samuel Beckett The Grove Centenary Edition Dramatic Works', published 2006 under ISBN 9780802118196 and ISBN 0802118194.