This paper focuses on Samuel Beckett. Samuel Beckett, well-known poet, playwright and novelist on the absurd, was born on Good Friday of 1906 in Foxrock, Dublin in Ireland. He belonged to a middle class Protestant family and sent to the famed Port Royal School in Enniskillen (today Northern Ireland) and to Trinity College in Dublin. He excelled in sports and showed no indications of the bottomless gloom that would characterize his later life and literary works. At the age of 17, he met and got close to Dante, a lifetime literary friend, who figured in Beckett's early works. He was an excellent student of French and Italian at Trinity College, where he also won a prestigious scholarship at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris.
