Waiting for Godot (Beckett, Samuel)

by Samuel Beckett

In Waiting for Godot, two wandering tramps, Vladimir and Estragon, wait by a lonely tree, to meet up with Mr. Godot, an enigmatic figure in a world where time, place and memory are blurred and meaning is where you find it. The tramps hope that Godot will change their lives for the better. Instead, two eccentric travelers arrive, one man on the end of the other's rope. The results are both funny and dangerous in this existential masterpiece.

• ISBN10: 0394172043
• ISBN13: 9780394172040
• Publish Date: 1 June 1954
• Publish Status: Transferred
• Imprint: Grove/Atlantic
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Language: English

Reviews

[celinenyx]

I might give this a higher or lower rating, if I had understood what this play was about. I have some vague concept of some of the themes Waiting for Godot touches, for example, "Godot" very much contains the word "God", but I probably need to study this text more closely to get something out of it. It was easy enough to read, and has some comical scenes in it in a slapstick kind of way. Like many modern/postmodern texts it seems to be about going in circles and the pointlessness of life. I wonder why literary fiction writers are never happy people.