Vivian Zenari's Reviews > Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist

The book intimidated me by its length and detail, but I have finally finished it. Beckett was a private person, so direct comments from him are not voluminous. Yet the book is full of information about him and the people around him. I didn't know how relatively uneventful his life was before his first play was produced, and that happened when he was middle-aged. I say "relatively" because he did spend much of his young manhood socializing with James Joyce. I feel like I put his work into a context much better than I could before.