Samuel Beckett
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| Title | : | Endgame |
| Author | : | Samuel Beckett |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 60 pages |
| Published | : | 1989 by Faber and Faber (first published January 30th 1957) |
| Categories | : | Plays. Drama. Classics. Theatre. Fiction. European Literature. Irish Literature |
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Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, novels, stories, and poetry has earned him an uncontested place as one of the greatest writers of our time. Endgame, originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett himself, is now considered by many critics to be his greatest single work. A pinnacle of Beckett's characteristic raw minimalism, it is a pure and devastating distillation of the human essence in the face of approaching death.Declare Books Supposing Endgame
| Original Title: | Fin de partie |
| ISBN: | 0571070671 (ISBN13: 9780571070671) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Nell, Hamm, Clov, Nagg |
| Literary Awards: | Obie Nominee for Best Foreign Play (1958) |
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You're on earth, there's no cure for that!Fin de partie = Endgame: a play in one act, Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989)Endgame, by Samuel Beckett, is a one-act play with four characters. It was originally written in French (entitled: Fin de partie); Beckett himself translated it into English. The play was first performed in a French-language production at the Royal Court Theatre in London, opening on 3 April 1957. It is commonly considered, along with such works as Waiting for Godot, to be among Beckett's most important works. Characters:
Celebrity Death Match Special: Endgame versus Secrets of Pawnless Endings[An almost bare stage containing only an armchair, a table and two garbage cans. The armchair is covered in a heavy drape. CLOV enters right, carrying a bag, and limps slowly towards the table. When he reaches it, he pulls out a chessboard and set. He places the board on the table and painstakingly arranges a few pieces on it, examining the position from different angles and adjusting the pieces accordingly. Finally, he
While I enjoyed reading some of Beckett's other plays, this one didn't work so well for me because I have seen a pretty good production of it, thus without the visuals is just wasn't as good at conveying everything. It does contain all his trademarks though - sarcasm, absurdism, irony, gallows humour, but something like Waiting for Godot or Happy days I just found worked better. It didn't help either that my copy was of a very poor print, which put my tired eyes through the ringer. Beckett is
One of Beckett's most famous and best plays. Hamm and Clov are an unforgettable pair. Hamm is a miserable person, confined to his chair, and somewhat accepting of his fate, slowly waiting for death - the end to come. But the end is slow in coming so why don't they continue to play this game, this game of life, this game of routines, of talking to each other, pretending to care etc. Clov is Hamm's patient caretaker who generally has the patience of a saint, irrespective of the occasional
My youngest daughter took me to see this during the week. We had our first beer together prior to the performance in a pub a highly significant moment for a father, obviously, especially here in the land of Oz, the land of the amber fluid.Then a minute ago I read the Wiki article on this play. I wanted to be sure it was written post-WW2. You see, it is so obviously a post-nuclear war play that I would have been very disappointed if it had been written in 1922 or something. You know, the way TSE
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