Communist Samuel Beckett

After the death of Zosima the holy father in Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, there comes out a very bad and rotten smell from the room where his body is prepared to be buried--a smell, a bad rotten one, which everybody found it hard to believe that from the body of such a holy father such a bad smell would come. Queer, but true, all the same. Likewise, I could detect communism in--you wouldn't believe it, nobody would, I myself hardly do--Beckett's Waiting for Godot where I found that Vladimir and Estragon are like two Radicalists (Lenin and Trotsky) waiting for the Revolution. No wonder, and it is no co-incidence that one of the twosome has a Russian name: Vladimir, and the other one, Estragon, who according to Martin Esslin was originally called by Beckett: Levy, a typical Jewish name, and Trotsky was Jewish (Karl Marx, churns the topic even thicker). Vladimir's reference to "the nineties when we were respectable" is to the 1890s when these Radicalists were active