Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil - Wikipedia
WEBSuzanne Georgette Anna Déchevaux-Dumesnil (7 January 1900 [1] – 17 July 1989) [2][3] was a French pianist who was the lover and later wife of writer Samuel Beckett. Relationship with Beckett. In the 1930s, Beckett chose Déchevaux-Dumesnil as his lover over the heiress Peggy Guggenheim.
Samuel Beckett's Wife Is Dead at 89 in Paris - The New York Times
WEBAug 1, 1989 · Suzanne Deschevaux-Dumesnil, the wife of the playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett, died on July 17 in Paris. She was 89 years old.
Suzanne Georgette Anna Beckett (Déchevaux-Dumesnil) (1900
WEBSep 26, 2020 · Suzanne Déchevaux-Dumesnil (1900 – 17 July 1989) was the tennis-partner, lover, and later wife of Samuel Beckett. In the 1930s, Beckett, an avid tennis fan his whole life, chose Déchevaux-Dumesnil as his …
Letters from an Elusive Playwright | Emory University | Atlanta GA
WEBSamuel Beckett—the Irish avant- garde novelist, theater director, and playwright—once wrote that “every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.” His more than fifteen thousand letters, spanning six decades of the twentieth century, tell a different story.
Dance First film review — chapters in the life of Samuel Beckett
WEBNov 2, 2023 · Failure and futility were his lifeblood. That much registers with the mixed-bag biography Dance First, the writer played by Gabriel Byrne, his wife Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil by Sandrine...
Samuel Beckett - Wikipedia
WEBSamuel Barclay Beckett (/ ˈ b ɛ k ɪ t / ⓘ; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic experiences of life, often coupled with black comedy and nonsense .
Important acquisition of Suzanne Déchevaux-Dumesnil material by Beckett …
WEBFeb 11, 2024 · An announcement of the acquisition of hitherto unseen archival material has just been made by The Beckett International Foundation. The collection includes five typescripts with works by Suzanne Déchevaux-Dumesnil, Beckett’s wife …
Beckett in Folkestone: A Promenade Event - The Samuel Beckett …
WEBMay 13, 2021 · A novel event to mark the sixtieth anniversary of Samuel Beckett's wedding to Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil is to be held in Folkestone, where the original ceremony took place.
War, women and faith: the real Samuel Beckett revealed ... - The Telegraph
WEBJan 3, 2023 · Beckett’s wife, Suzanne Déchevaux-Dumesnil, died in July 1989 just as the interview process had got going. “It was obvious he was declining.
Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil – The Samuel Beckett Society
WEBSamuel Beckett Died On This Day in 1989. An excerpt from Mel Gussow’s obituary, published in The New York Times, 27 December 1989: “Samuel Beckett, a towering figure in drama and fiction who altered the course of contemporary theater, died in Paris on Friday at the age of 83.