Luckys speech is a monologue of non-sequitur which jars coherence at every level. Unlike the other characters in the play who talk compulsively,Lucky utters just two sentences in the play, one of which is extremely long. Over the course of a long association with the Folio Society that began in 1976, he has illustrated novels as diverse as George Orwell’s Animal Farm and Apuleius’ The Golden Ass. In Samuel Becketts play Waiting for Godot, Lucky is the slave of a character called Pozzo. Blake was Britain’s first Children’s Laureate from 1999 to 2001 and won the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2002 – the highest recognition in the world for creators of children’s books. His deep commitment to promoting the art of illustration culminated in the founding of the House of Illustration – now the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration – in 2014. After studying at the University of Cambridge and the Institute of Education in London, Blake taught for many years at the Royal College of Art and the French lycée in South Kensington. His first published artwork appeared in Punch when he was a teenager. He has illustrated more than 300 books, specialising in humorous work for children’s fiction, and is perhaps best known for his work on novels by Roald Dahl, as well as books by Michael Rosen and Michael Morpurgo. Sir Quentin Blake (born 1932) is one of Britain’s leading contemporary illustrators. Waiting for Godot, tragicomedy in two acts by Irish writer Samuel Beckett, published in 1952 in French as En attendant Godot and first produced in 1953.
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