The 100 best nonfiction books: No 29 " Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (1952/53)
A bleakly hilarious, enigmatic watershed that changed the language of theatre and still sparks debate six decades onWaiting for Godot was not just a two-act play in which, as one wit put it, "nothing happens, twice", it was a theatrical revolution, the beginning of the theatre of the absurd. Together with some essential volumes of poetry (see Nos 4, 11 and 17), this extraordinary drama would not only exert a profound…
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