![]() ![]() ![]() With side-by-side text, the reader can experience the mastery of Beckett’s language and explore its nuances. In doing so he chose to revise and eliminate various passages. Beckett wrote the play in French and then translated it himself into English. Now in honor of the centenary of Samuel Beckett’s birth, Grove Press is publishing a bilingual edition of the play. Waiting for Godot is one of the masterpieces of the century.” ![]() As Clive Barnes wrote, “Time catches up with genius. From an inauspicious beginning at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone in 1953, followed by bewilderment among American and British audiences, Waiting for Godot has become one of the most important and enigmatic plays of the past fifty years and a cornerstone of twentieth-century drama. ![]()
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