Article: Flann O'Brien and Samuel Beckett.

Samuel Beckett's literary career is usually divided into three phases: the early Beckett with poems and prose works, dating from 1930, the mature Beckett with novels like Molloy and plays like Waiting for Godot, dating from the late 1940s, and the late Beckett with ever shorter 'dramaticules' and prose pieces like Not I, Company, or Stirrings Still, dating from 1965.

In this context, much attention has been paid to the transition from the first to the second phase because this shift marked the change from a clever young writer in the tradition of James Joyce to the world-famous author of black humour and absurdist existentialism (as he was perceived in the ...

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