You don’t have to be an academic to appreciate Samuel Beckett. Dr Anthony Uhlman, the convenor of the Samuel Beckett International Symposium, after Beckett; d’apres Beckett, makes that clear when he says that his three-year-old child can understand certain visual images in a Beckett play quite well.
For while the Dublin-born writer was interested in mathematics, philosophy and ideas of the spirit, he was also influenced by the likes of Charlie Chaplin and the brothers Marx.
