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“He visited Dresden’s Zwinger Gallery nine times and during a day spent in the Alte Akademie was entranced by Caspar David Friedrich’s nocturnal landscape, Two Men Observing the Moon.
Thus was planted the idea for a play that, years later, would make his name: Waiting for Godot.”
irishtimes.com
Postcards from the Edge – Frank McNally on Samuel Beckett’s newly published German Diaries
Travelling around Nazi Germany, he wrote presciently about war and found inspiration for Waiting for Godot
