Beckett was not Political - Eagleton at it again

In an artice for New Left Review, the literary critic Terry Eagleton tries to frame an argument for the writings of Samuel Beckett being political out of the fact that Beckett faught with 'Gloria' in the French Resistence. Terry, this is rubbish.

For your jaundiced view of Irish writing being the cultural support for 'free the people' nationalism please stick to O'Casey and leave Beckett's name off the work-sheet at your marxist mill.

As a brief aside, I have only been introduced to Terry once, and the 'person' in front of me abused him from a height, which left me grasping the hand of a bemused, befuddled and slightly stammering old dolt.

In the words of Beckett, 'CRITIC!!!'