Samuel Barclay Beckett(Dublin, April 13, 1906 - Paris, December 22, 1989) was a playwright, novelist, critic and Irish poet, one of the most important representatives of literary experimentalism twentieth century within the literary modernism. He was also a key figure called theater of the absurd and, as such, one of the most influential writers of his time.2 wrote his books in English and French, and was assistant and disciple of novelist James Joyce. His best known work is the drama Waiting for Godot