Lee Kang-baek Lee Kang-baek Lee Kang-Baek (born December 1, 1947) is a South Korean playwright. Lee Kang-Baek was born on December 1, 1947 in Jeonju, North Jeolla Province, South Korea Lee recounts that as a youth he was shocked to discover from French nouveaux romans and Samuel Beckett’s En attendant Godot that literary works could have unclear plotlines and circular plot structures. His early love for such works highly influenced his own literary productions. Lee has published roughly thirty dramas, all in the anti-realist style. Lee writes dramas almost exclusively, and most of his work has been staged. This attests to the
Waiting for Godot political and religious interpretation", wrote Normand Berlin in a tribute to the play in Autumn 1999, "with Beckett himself placed in different schools of thought, different movements and 'ism's. The attempts to pin him down have not been successful, but the desire to do so is natural when we encounter a writer whose minimalist art reaches for bedrock reality. 'Less' forces us to look for 'more', and the need to talk about "Godot" and about Beckett has resulted in a steady outpouring of books and articles. Throughout "Waiting for Godot", the audience may encounter religious, philosophical, classical, psychoanalytical and biographical