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Entries: Absurd, Theater of the - "The most widely acclaimed play of the school is Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot (1953)." Antirealistic Novel - Listed among later antirealists. "Their works dispense with shapely plot and reduce people to minimal presences in vivid states of anxiety, such as Beckett's Molloy..." Complaint - "...and Samuel Beckett, in some youthful poems, revived the Provencal complaint form called Enueg for some poems of his own." Diminishing Age in English Literature - "Perhaps the most challenging experimental writer of the period was Samuel Beckett, in both the novel and drama." Dramaticule - "The term ordinarily disparages and dismisses a miniature work, but Samuel Beckett applied dramaticule to his own play Come and Go." Existentialism - "Existentialism has found art and literature to be unusually effective methods of expression; [...] in the plays and novels of Sartre and Beckett..." Metafiction - "By now, virtually any serious fiction---that, say, of Samuel Beckett [...]---contains as one of its structural and thematic dimensions a testing of fiction itself." Mirlitonnade - "Applied by Samuel Beckett to short poems written on paper napkins and matchbooks." Mime - "Samuel Beckett's Act Without Words is a modern counterpart of the mime play." Minimalism - "In literature, one can see minimalist tendencies in Samuel Beckett's late works: brevity, economy, modesty."