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Of or pertaining to the novelist and playwright Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) or his writings, noted for their bleak outlook and minimalism. quotations examples
The Beckettian progression appears occasionally: while Miss Counihan (static) is an omnivorous reader and Murphy (transitional) a strict non-reader, Cooper is an analphabete.
1968, Robert Ligon Harrison, Samuel Beckett's Murphy; a critical excursion, page 57
This uncertainty often appears in Beckettian criticism—take the Scrutonian hesitation over Beckett's 'characters (if characters they can be called)', or John Pilling's admission that, in Beckett, character can become an 'impossibly complicated matter'.
2008, Sophie Ratcliffe, On Sympathy
plural Beckettians
A scholar of Samuel Beckett's writings. examples