Samuel Beckett (1906–1989), the Irish playwright and novelist whose name is synonymous with existential despair and the Theatre of the Absurd, remains one of the most scrutinised figures in 20th-century…

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), a central figure in modernist literature, is celebrated for her groundbreaking novels such as Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927), as well as her feminist essays like A Room of…