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A young man at odds with his middle-class family, refusing to take part in "normal" life while accepting hand-outs from his mother, is the subject of this play. Unperformed during Beckett's lifetime, it draws on the traditions of French boulevard comedy and melodrama.
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Written in French in the late forties before Waiting for Godot, Eleutheria is about a young man at odds with his middle-class family, living alone in a bedsit and refusing to take part in 'normal' life while accepting handouts from his mother. Often richly comic, it contains elements of high farce and draws on the traditions of French boulevard comedy and melodrama.
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