The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Beckett

The problem with trying to locate Beckett in any national or cultural
tradition is that, in his young days at any rate, he forswore any such
relationship. He scorned an art which concerned itself with ‘local accident’
or the ‘local substance’, holding instead that the true object of literature is ‘the
issueless predicament of existence’ (D 97). Take, for instance, his relationship
with Ireland. His characters’ names – Murphy, Molloy, Malone – and the
cadence of their speech often have an Irish inflection while the topography of
Beckett’s childhood haunts his work. Yet he wrote most of his major works in
French, before translating them, and spent most of his life abroad. Moreover,
just as his early critical writing is impatient with politicised art, he has a great
deal of scorn for cultural nationalism. He was clearly influenced by Irish
forebears like Swift, Yeats and especially Synge but he had little time for the
project of the Irish Revival that dominated

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