Following the end of World War II, many artists were grappling with the chaos and destruction of war, and looking for new modes in art and literature. In the late 1940s, Irish writer Samuel Beckett was living in Paris and wrote En attendant Godot, a symbolic investigation into the absurdity of life. It was originally broadcast on French radio in early 1952. It was then printed in September before its first theatrical performance in October at the Théâtre de Babylone in Paris. French critics and audiences were curious about the play and its unusual and innovative style, in which two men
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