A Samuel Beckett Chronology

Samuel Beckett (1906‐1989) won the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature following in the footsteps of such distinguished Irish born winners as William Butler Yeats in 1923, George Bernard Shaw in 1925 and subsequently in 1995 by Seamus Heaney. The notable exception is of course perhaps the greatest of them all, James Joyce (1882‐1941). Joyce's life intersected with Beckett's. As Pilling indicates in his “Who's Who” to his Chronology, they were introduced in November 1928. It appears, although the story is still incomplete, that Joyce's brilliant but disturbed daughter Lucia became obsessed with Beckett who failed to respond appropriately to...