The novel by one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, philosopher, Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) was published for the first time in 1993 - almost sixty years after its creation. The main character of the novel is a young man named Belacqua, a new incarnation of the character from Dante's Purgatory. Belacqua wanders around Europe, being in a strange world of half-asleep-half-awake, and breaks up with his three lovers - Smeraldina-Rima, Sira-Cusa and Alba. The book is written in a baroque language, unusual for the “late” Beckett, and is filled with a huge number of allusions and hidden quotes.