“Leastness: The Essence of Samuel Beckett” – George STEINER

The New Yorker, September 8, 1996 Can biography elucidate Samuel Beckett’s austere art? The fire caught in 1945, after Samuel Beckett’s grim experiences, first in the French Resistance and in hiding, then as a medical orderly at Saint-Lô. Very much in the manner of Dante, his guardian spirit, Beckett was lit by a vision. “Krapp’s…