Waiting for Godot
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. As Clive Barnes wrote, "Time catches up with genius. . . . "Waiting for Godot" is one of the masterpieces of the century." The story revolves around two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone--or something--named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree, inhabiting a drama spun of their own consciousness. The result is a comical wordplay of poetry, dreamscapes, and nonsense, which has been interpreted as mankind's inexhaustible search for meaning. Beckett's language pioneered an expressionistic minimalism that captured the existential post- World War II Europe. His play remains one of the most magical and beautiful allegories of our time.
87 pages, 16 editions
English edition · First published 1988 by Faber and Faber · ISBN 9780571229116
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Editions
16 editions
English
- Waiting for Godot · Faber and Faber · 2006 · ISBN 9780571229116 · 2 readers This page
- Waiting for Godot · Faber & Faber · 2019 · ISBN 9780571348701
- Waiting for Godot: En Attendant Godot · Faber & Faber · 2015 · ISBN 9780571329656
- Waiting for Godot · Turtleback · 2011 · ISBN 9780606346603
- Waiting for Godot · Grove/Atlantic, Inc · 2011 · ISBN 9780571297016
- Waiting for Godot · Grove/Atlantic, Inc · 2011 · ISBN 9780802198822
- Waiting for Godot · Faber and Faber · 2010 · ISBN 9780571293216
- Waiting for Godot · Faber and Faber · 2010 · ISBN 9780571244591
- Waiting for Godot · Marco Book Company · 2009 · ISBN 9780784814420
- Waiting for Godot: En Attendant Godot · Faber · 2006 · ISBN 9780571229109
- Waiting for Godot · Naxos Audio Books · 2006 · ISBN 9789626344026
- Waiting for Godot · Cbc Radio Canada · 2001 · ISBN 9780660179810
- Waiting for Godot · Folio Society · 2000 · ISBN 9780802101686
- Waiting for Godot · Longman Group · 1988 · ISBN 9780582023185
- Waiting for Godot · Surjeet Pub. · ISBN 9788122902150
- Waiting for Godot · Viva Books · ISBN 9788130906706
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