Endgame : a play in one act followed by Act without words, a mime for one player / Samuel Beckett.
By: Beckett, Samuel
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BookPublisher: London : Faber & Faber, 1964Description: 60 p. ; 19 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0571070671; 9780571070671.Uniform titles: Fin de partie. English Subject(s): Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 -- Translations into English | Drama | Literature | Literature: history & criticism | Biography, literature & literary studies | Plays, playscriptsDDC classification: 822.914 BEC | 822.91 BEC
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
'Outside lies a world of death. Inside the room the blind, imperious Hamm sits in a wheelchair while his lame servant, Clov, scuttles about obeying his orders. Each depends fractiously on the other: Hamm alone knows the combination of the larder while Clov is his master's eyes and last remnant of human contact. The only other survivors are Hamm's legless parents, Nagg and Nell, who squat in upstage dustbins and die during the play.' Michael Billington, Guardian
This translation originally published:1958.
Translation of: Fin de partie.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Nobel Prize winner (1969) Samuel Beckett was born on April 13, 1906 near Dublin, Ireland into a middle-class Protestant family. As a boy, he studied French and enjoyed cricket, tennis, and boxing. At Trinity College he continued his studies in French and Italian and became interested in theater and film, including American film.After graduation, Beckett taught English in Paris and traveled through France and Germany. While in Paris Beckett met Suzanne Deschevaus-Dusmesnil. During World War II when Paris was invaded, they joined the Resistance. They were later forced to flee Paris after being betrayed to the Gestapo, but returned in 1945. Beckett and Deschevaus-Dusmesnil married in 1961.
Samuel Beckett's first novel was Dream of Fair to Middling Women. Among his many works are Murphy; Malone Dies; and The Unnameable. His plays include Endgame, Happy Days, Not I, That Time, and Krapp's Last Tape.
In 1953, the production of Waiting For Godot in Paris by director and actor Roger Blin earned Beckett international fame. Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969. His style was postmodern minimalist and some of his major themes were imprisonment in one's self, the failure of language, and moral conduct in a godless world.
Despite his fame, Samuel Beckett led a secluded life. In his later years he suffered from cataracts and emphysema. His wife Suzanne died on July 17, 1989 and Beckett died on December 22nd of the same year.
(Bowker Author Biography)