Watt, a novel by 1969 Nobel Prize winner for literature Samuel Beckett (1906–1989), was written during World War II while the author was hiding from the Gestapo in the Vaucluse Mountains. At the same time, the author came up with the idea for the play “Waiting for Godot.” But unlike many subsequent works, Watt remains an Irish philosophical novel, filled with the dark humor that became a hallmark of all of Beckett's prose. The eccentricity, logical absurdity and comic nonsense of this book have not yet been surpassed in world literature. Samuel Beckett's most famous novel “Watt” is for the first time in Russian.