Waiting for Godot/En Attendant Godot -- Samuel Beckett

from DavidWineberg

The amazing thing about Waiting for Godot is that it has always engendered confusion, uncertainty and half-formed theories. It's puzzling to most viewers and reviewers. So much so, you have to wonder why anyone likes it, since they don't seem to be able to understand it. Yet far from an enigmatic...

from mstrust

Hobos Vladimir and Estragon wait and wait, discuss suicide, religion and violence, meet the cruel Pozzo and his robotic slave Lucky, try on shoes and hats and eat vegetables. While reading this I wondered why this play, first performed in 1952, hadn't been the catalyst to the new wave of British ...

from stilton

It just needs to be read. Not read as a Freudian riddle, or read as a gloss on Marxism, or read as a work of existentialism, but read as a book - or, yes, as a play. Then forget about it, if you like, or read it again, or put it on the shelf and take it from there (or not), but don't worry about ...

from bruneau

As an absurdist philosophical exploration on the meaning of life (or lack of), it entertains in the dark perspective that life itself is a comedy, with or without a punch line, when one spends it waiting for something else than life itself. "Waiting for Godot" is very much an acquired taste. Read...

from Schmerguls

I thought it appropriate that I read this very absurd play on April Fools' Day. It is only 120 pages, numbered in the book I read only on every other page so the total pages only get up to 60..One shoud study the work--I only read it and its significance missed me.