Linguist, lexicographer, radio host, public speaker

Why did Samuel Beckett write in French?

“More and more my own language appears to me like a veil that must be torn apart in order to get at the things (or the Nothingness) behind it. Grammar and Style. To me they seem to have become as irrelevant as a Victorian bathing suit or the imperturbability of a true Gentleman. A mask.”

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Grant Barrett