A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
by Samuel Beckett
Recommended by Elon Musk
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From an inauspicious beginning at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone in 1953, followed by bewilderment among American and British audiences, Waiting for Godot has become of the most important and enigmatic plays of the past fifty years and a cornerstone of twentiethcentury drama. As Clive Barnes wrote, “Time catches up with genius … Waiting fo...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Books Recommended by Elon Musk, Most Recommended Books, and Fiction.
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Elon Musk
Co-founder of PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, and Neuralink
“Have recently come to appreciate the awesome, absurdist humor of Waiting for Godot. We so often wait, without knowing why, when or where.”
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Consider The Republic by Plato. Recommended by 13 sources.
“Plato stages an extended Socratic conversation that moves from concrete questions about justice into broad proposals about an ideal city, the structure of the soul, and what counts as reality and knowledge. Reading alternates brisk question-and-answer snippets with long, cumulative demonstrations that reward careful attention and annotation. Main value: a wealth of thought experiments for testing political and ethical intuitions. Main limitation: repetitive refutations, long policy sketches and dense metaphysical passages can feel abstruse and slow; patience and some philosophical background help.”
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