Watt was Samuel Beckett's second published novel in English. It was largely written on the run in the South of France during the Second World War and was first published by Maurice Girodias's Olympia
Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish novelist, playwright, poet, and literary critic. Written in both English and French, his literary and theatrical works feature bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic epi
Beckett in 1977
Beckett's residence at Trinity College Dublin, pictured in 2021
Samuel Beckett Walk in Paris
Portrait of Samuel Beckett by Reginald Gray, painted in Paris, 1961 (from the collection of Ken White, Dublin)