How much to read into Samuel Beckett’s flirtation with fashion?

Samuel Beckett was obsessed with birth. "I have a clear memory of my own foetal existence," he said in an interview given in 1970. "It was an existence where no voice, no possible movement, could free me from the agony and darkness I was subjected to."

For photographers, Beckett was an especially appealing subject.

Here at the Samuel Beckett Society, we're not sure what to make of Robert Armstrong's recent piece in the Financial Times about the end of the male style icon. Armstrong is wistful for a simpler time, when male celebrity figures were supposedly emulated and celebrated for their sartorial choices. What do you think? Does Beckett's dress code…

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Nobel Prize Recipient. Samuel Beckett, an Irish-born author, received world-wide acclaim after being awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature. According to the Nobel Prize committee, he received this coveted award for his writing, which - in new forms for the novel and drama - in the destitution of modern man...

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"Echo's Bones" was the be the final part of the author's first published book of fiction. Just over 80 years later it has been published.