![]() Instead, when the two principal characters, Vladimir and Estragon are reminiscing about picking grapes, the countryside is transformed into "Macon country," which is actually 300 km to the north. Beckett himself translated the work into English, and in doing so omitted references to Bonnelly's farm and Roussillon. Didn't everyone know that? Supposedly Beckett was inspired to write the play, after waiting for a long time, trying to hitch-hike a ride up to the village, off the N 100, which cuts through the valley just north of the Luberon Mountains.The play was first produced in a Left Bank (naturally) theatre in Paris. He was later able to confirm, on subsequent visits, with individuals whom he had had numerous conversations that yes, of course, Beckett had lived there. We worked in the harvest together on Bonnelly's farm, in Roussillon." Wylie had lived in this small village for over two years, only six years after one of the most famous playwrights of the 20th century had lived there, during WW II. He came across a passage that read, as translated: "But we were in the Vaucluse together, I'd swear it. But the most astonishing part of the book is revealed in the preface to the second edition, when he is back in Boston, and was reading Beckett's play (obviously in French, in which it was originally written). In Wylie's account, entitled Village in the Vaucluse, Third Edition, he called the town "Peyrane." It was an account far removed from the chichi, upscale "destination" village of today in 1950 it was still marked by the poverty of the post-World War II period, when farmers would shot sparrows for food. He moved there, with his wife, and two young children, in 1950. I was inspired by Harvard sociologist, Laurence Wylie, who wrote an account of his two-year stay in the Provencal village of Roussillon. In fact the decision was made in a rather circuitous fashion. Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2011įortunately, once again based on the 1-star reviews, reading this play was not a school assignment. ![]() Standing on a corner, along N100, hoping to catch a ride. ![]()
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