Read Waiting for Godot

Seven years in a Davos sanatorium arguing about Europe before 1914.

Harry Haller, half man and half wolf, and the Magic Theatre; Hesse's midlife crisis.

A Brahmin's son leaves the Buddha to find his own way, and finds it at a river.

Meursault shoots an Arab on a beach because of the sun; Camus in a hundred pages.

Oran quarantined, Dr Rieux at work; Camus's novel of the Occupation and every epidemic since.

Roquentin in a Normandy town discovers that existence is absurd, starting with a chestnut root.

The prince, the ghost and the delay; the most quoted play in English.

Three witches, one prophecy and a Scottish couple who take it literally; the short, bloody one.