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Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

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Waiting for Godot
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The dilemma of being human:
Why does it happen at all?
Where do we go when it ends?
The perpetual struggle between hope and despair.
Sincere and heartwarming in an odd sort of way.

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Samuel Beckett

“Estragon: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist?

Vladimir: Yes, yes, we're magicians.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

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message 1: by Mark (last edited Jun 02, 2018 01:13PM) (new) -added it

Mark André Thank you, Mihaella! - )

They're reading this down the street and I couldn't keep from getting involved, at least for today, and realized I'd never written a review, so I scratched out a little something.

MihaElla Well done, Mark! -) Thank you for this softly falling interesting output.
From my side, I should have read the play times back but I flew over it after my mother kept telling me, every time after addressing me a kind request, << it's like 'waiting for Godot' until you come >>. She was right, partially. In the end I was showing up. -)

Mark André Thank you, Luffy! - )
Nice to hear from you.

Mark André Thank you, Mihaella! - )
It is a simple story for sophisticated tastes.
I like your mother's sense of humor. Funny story!

MihaElla I only like simple and straight-forward stories. -) It means this play is pending my attention.
Thank you, I like greatly my mother's sense of humor, it keeps me engaged and entertained especially when I seem to lack the drive to keep things going. -)

Mark André The play is very entertaining on film. I like the 2001 Irish National Television production, part of a series called: Beckett on Film.
Your welcome! - )

MihaElla Mark wrote: "The play is very entertaining on film. I like the 2001 Irish National Television production, part of a series called: Beckett on Film. Your welcome! - )"

Excellent, thanks for the new tip! -) We never seem to have enough. Now It just remains to start working on it..

Mark André I saw it on U-tube this morning. I didn't watch it, but I located it.
"beckett on film waiting for godot" got me there. Of course the option is yours: whether to read and then watch; or watch and then read. Either way will be fun. Where Hedda Gabler is all action even though it is accomplished without any real motion, Godot has no action at all. Just a long sort of philosophical discussion of what it may mean to be human. Happy watching/reading! - )

Mark André Thank you, Rosemarie! - )
It is a great play to read, and a great play to watch too!

Mark André Thank you, Jan-Maat! - )
For me it is one of the incomparable triumphs of the last century.

Mark André Thank you, Shyam! - )
If I owned a copy of the film version I would probably watch it once a day: to help me cope, to put me in a proper frame of mind to face another sunrise. A profound statement on the so called "human condition"!

Mark André Thanks, d-man! - )
I think one needs a bit of reality in their lives to appreciate Beckett's subtle humor.

Mark André Thanks, W.D.! - )
As all of us who have enjoyed Beckett's masterpiece know, it is a kickin piece of Art!

Mark André Thank you, MK! - )
It is one of my favorite reads. I think you have to be at least 50 years old to enjoy Beckett's subtle cynicism.

Mark André Thank you, Caterina! - )

MK Well, I've cleared the bar, then! ;-)
Hopefully I can get to at least one Beckett sometime later this year. I've never read any !

Mark André Hi MK! - ) Maybe I should modify my observation a little. I think to really enjoy Beckett's play you need to have experienced the up and downs of life: to be mature and to understand yourself and realize "you can't always get what you want" to be a grown-up. Maybe fifty is a bit arbitrary.
As much as I love this play, I've tried some of Beckett's novels, his trilogy and came away quite frustrated. I actually saw the play on tv before I read it, and it wasn't a spoiler at all. It is a rather singular event, not like anything else I've ever read!

MK Now that sounds intriguing, Mark!

Mark André MK wrote: "Now that sounds intriguing, Mark!"
Well, that is our goal! - )

Mark André Thank you, Chloe! - )

Mark André Thank you, etherealfire! - )

Mark André Thank you, Charlotte! - )
One of the most inspiring works of Art I have ever encountered.

Mark André Thank you, Mischenko!
It is one of my favorite reads: all-time!

Mark André Thank you, Hussain! - )
Very nice to meet you.

Mark André Thank you, Calista! - )
I apologize, I can't remember if "Very nice to meet you" or Nice to hear from you" is called for here, so I will send both.

Mark André Thank you, Lydia! - )
Nice to hear from you. Godot is one of my favorite books.

Mark André Thank you, Ilse! - )
Nice to hear from you. For reasons I certainly don't understand Godot seems to be much more popular on the right side of the Atlantic than on the left.

Mark André Thank you, Med! - )
Nice to hear from you.

Mark André Thank you, Jessica! - )

Mark André Thank you, Fernando! - )
One of the true masterpieces of 20th-century literature.

Mark André Thank you, Karin! - )
Very nice to meet you. I discovered Godot in my early 50's. If I had been any younger I would have probably missed the point.

Mark André Thank you, Jeff! - )
Very nice to meet you.

Mark André Thank you, Cleo! - )
It's one of my favorites!

Mark André Thank you, Spencer! - )
Nice to hear from you.

Mark André Thank you, Raymond! - )
Very nice to meet you.

Mark André Thank you, Dakota! - )
Very nice to meet you.

Mark André Thank you, Teodora! - )

Mark André Thank you, Rakesh! - )

Mark André Thank you, Intellecta! - )
Nice to hear from you.

Mark André Thank you, Patrice! - )
Very nice to meet you.

Mark André Thank you, cass! - )
Very nice to meet you.

Fernando Easy, quick and to the point review. A truly master, mister André...

Mark André Thank you, Fernando!
Very kind of you to say. - )

Mark André Thank you, Rojina! - )
Very nice to meet you.

Mark André Thank you, Guille! - )
Very nice to meet you.

Mark André Thank you, kostas! - )
Nice to hear from you.

Mark André Thank you, Asma! - )
Why is Godot so much more popular over there than over here?

message 48: by Mark (last edited Jan 30, 2019 11:22AM) (new) -added it

Mark André Curious & Interesting

Over the last couple of days I have received about 50+ "like" hits on my Waiting for Godot reviews. (I didn't even remember that I had written two separate reviews.) I have no idea what stimulated this cascade of interest, but it was very cool. Without counting, I would estimate that almost half the people I heard from I had never heard from before, and that half of those new people were not even friends of friends, and again, that's very cool too. But what interests me most about this unexplainable phenomenon is that almost none of the enthusiasm for this very famous book came from my own country: USA. Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Iran, India, South America, and Canada were all well represented, but not America. I'm sure it doesn't mean anything, but it is curious. - )

Mark André Thank you, Jess! - )

Mark André Thank you, Whispering! - )

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