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Fiction. WATT was the beginning of Samuel Becket''s post-war
literary career, the fruition of the years in hiding in the
Vaucluse mountains from the Gestapo, which also largely inspired
WAITING FOR GODOT. But it remains, unlike the work that followed
it, extremely Irish, a philosophical novel full of the grim humour
that was already his trade-mark in such earlier fictions as MORE
PRICKS THAN KICKS and MURPHY. The perambulations of WATT,
especially in the home of the eccentric Mr. Knott, an
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In prose possessed of the radically stripped-down beauty and
ferocious wit that characterize his work, this early novel by Nobel
Prize winner Samuel Beckett recounts the grotesque and improbable
adventures of a fantastically logical Irish servant and his master.
Watt is a beautifully executed black comedy that, at its core, is
rooted in the powerful and terrifying vision that made Beckett one
of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.
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