Beckett's own work opened new possibilities for both the novel and the theater that his successors have not been able to ignore. Beckett was inspired, rather than influenced, by literary figures as different as the Italian poet Dante the French philosophers René Descartes and Blaise Pascal and the French novelist Marcel Proust. Probing of the darker recesses of the human spirit. His work shows affinities to James Joyce's, especially in the use of language to Franz Kafka's in the portrayal of terror and to Fyodor Dostoyevsky's in the Although Beckett was suspicious of conventional literature and of conventional theater, his aim was not to write antinovels or anti-plays as some authors did. He wrestled with the problems of “being” and “nothingness,” but he was not an existentialist in the manner of the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.
Samuel Beckett stood apart from the literary circles of his time, even though he shared many of their preoccupations.
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