Idealization and Samuel Beckett’s Watt

Is how the world appears different from how it truly Is?

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Samuel Beckett and his partner, Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil, were rebellious revolutionaries in their own right. As active members in the French Resistance cell, réseau Gloria, they sought to gather intel on the German occupiers of France. In August of 1942, these efforts came to a torrential end — a…