Samuel Beckett knew Albert Camus?

[Tyler Durden]

I'm making an work on Beckett, and i saw that the Camus'book Le Mythe de
Sysiphe (1941) tells about the absurd. Some themes are very similar to
Beckett's arts.
So i wan't to know if Beckett had read the Camus's essay.
Thank you

Bye from Italy

[John Adams]

Yes, they knew each other. Beckett lived in Paris from 1937 till his
death, (and wrote both "Godot" and "Endgame" in French.) . Both
frequented a literary bar called Pont Royal Hotel.

Camus was, after the war, the foremost and most popular of the
Existentialist writers, and is generally regarded as the inspiration
of the "Theatre of the Absurd", to which Beckett and many others ,
through Harold Pinter to Tom Stoppard, belong. Beckett was an avid
reader of philosophical tracts, and would certainly have read
"Sysiphe". So would most educated Frenchmen in the 1950's.
If you would like to find out more I suggest you use a search engine
and type in "Theatre of the absurd" and "existentialist"

[Tyler Durden]

Thanks a lot, John!

Your informations are very important for my work.
I knew that definition "The theatre of the absurd" born with Camus, but i
didn't find on the books of my bibliography (Richard Coe, Adorno and Italian
critics) any information about the friendship between Camus and Beckett. I
thought that Beckett knew Camus, because this one was one of important
french author and B. loved french culture, but i didn't have the prove.
The fact that Camus and Beckett are friends justify my thesis about the same
conception of "the art of the absurd".

Ciao
G.

In a house a man drops dead
As he hits the floor he sighs
"What a morning"

D.Bowie

[John Adams]

Be careful what you think I said.
I too, have no evidence that these two were actually friends, I merely
maintain they must have known each other. Beckett was not friendly
with many people, and Camus loathed Sartre, whom Beckett must also
have known.
The fact that you can find no evidence in any biography recording a
conversation between them would suggest that they were only
acquaintances.
I have drunk at many a bar at the same time as people whom I detest.

On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 11:38:33 GMT, "Tyler Durden"
<tyler...@fightclub.org> wrote:
>SNIPPED

>Thanks a lot, John!

[Hugh Watkins]

"Tyler Durden" <tyler...@fightclub.org> wrote in message news:Z6js7.5530$_42.2...@news.infostrada.it...

> Thanks a lot, John!
>
> Your informations are very important for my work.
> I knew that definition "The theatre of the absurd" born with Camus, but i
> didn't find on the books of my bibliography (Richard Coe, Adorno and Italian
> critics) any information about the friendship between Camus and Beckett. I
> thought that Beckett knew Camus, because this one was one of important

http://www.google.com/search?q=Camus+and+Beckett+are+friends+&btnG=Google+Search

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Camus++Beckett++ami&btnG=Google+Search

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Camus++Beckett++hotel+bar&btnG=Google+Search

http://www.evergreenreview.com/archive/beckett/interv.html

>>> From an interview with Barney Rosset, founder of Grove Press, by Ken Jordan in the Winter 1997-1998 issue of The Paris Review.
KJ : Do you remember when you met Beckett?

BR : I remember the exact moment. It was in the bar of the Pont Royal Hotel, which is next door to Gallimard. And at that time
Sartre hung out there, as did Camus, and so on. I was with Loly, my wife at the time, and we were to meet Beckett at six for a
drink. This very handsome walked in wearing a raincoat and said, "Hi, nice to meet you. I've only got forty minutes." He was all set
to get rid of us! At four that morning he was buying us champagne <<<

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Camus++Beckett++Pont+Royal+Hotel&btnG=Google+Search

good luck

Hugh W