Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) is, without a doubt, one of the most significant writers of the 20th century: during his long life he created a large number of plays, including the world famous “Waiting for Godot” and “Endgame”, and wrote seven novels , as well as a lot of texts that are difficult to define by genre, demonstrating how conventional the border between a narrative text and a dramatic text, between a story and a film script, a radio play and a “scene without words” has become in modern literature. In 1969, the writer was awarded the Nobel Prize, and in terms of the number of scientific works devoted to him, Beckett is not inferior to either Proust or Joyce. Beckett's key works came out under his pen. CONTENTS: Mercier and Camier (5). Worthless texts (93). As it is (126). Devastator (217). Unseen unsaid (235). APPENDICES D.V. Tokarev. “Imagination is dead, imagine”: “French” prose of Samuel Beckett (257). Notes (D.V. Tokarev) (316).