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Endgame - Samuel Beckett
Endgame
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Originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett, Endgame was given its first London performance at the Royal Court Theatre in 1957. ‘Outside lies a world of death. Inside the room the blind, impervious Hamm sits in a wheelchair while his lame servant, Clov, scuttles about... show more
Originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett, Endgame was given its first London performance at the Royal Court Theatre in 1957.

‘Outside lies a world of death. Inside the room the blind, impervious 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 dustbins upstage and die during the play.’ Michael Billington, Guardian

‘Where is this place? It is here, that is all we can say - here before us, on stage.’ Hugh Kenner  

źródło opisu: Wydawnictwo Faber & Faber, 2009
źródło okładki: http://www.faber.co.uk/work/endgame/9780571243730/
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780571243730 (0571243738)
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Pages no: 112
Edition language: English
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Lagraziana's Kalliopeion
Lagraziana's Kalliopeion rated it
3.0 The Purgatory of Life Before Death: Endgame by Samuel Beckett
So far my experience with what is called the Theatre of the Absurd has been very limited and not particularly enchanting. Therefore it was daring of me to pick of all things a play by the 1969 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), for the Back to the Classics Challenge...
Lagraziana's Kalliopeion
Lagraziana's Kalliopeion rated it
3.0 The Purgatory of Life Before Death: Endgame by Samuel Beckett
So far my experience with what is called the Theatre of the Absurd has been very limited and not particularly enchanting. Therefore it was daring of me to pick of all things a play by the 1969 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), for the Back to the Classics Challenge...
Philosophical Musings of a Book Nerd
Philosophical Musings of a Book Nerd rated it
4.0 An absurd masterpiece
One of the interesting things that I find about Beckett's plays is that he resists the temptation to offer any interpretation to what is going on within the play, or what the play is about. In fact he seems to do completely the opposite in actually denying certain interpretations (while not offering...
Calyre
Calyre rated it
HAMM. - Pourquoi ne me tues-tu pas?CLOV. - Je ne connais pas la combinaison du buffet.CLOV. - Ca redevient gai. (Il monte sur l'escabeau, braque sa lunette sur le dehors. Elle lui échappe des mains, tombe. Un temps.) J'ai fait exprès. (Il descend de l'escabeau, ramasse la lunette, l'examine, la braq...
The English Student
The English Student rated it
2.5 Endgame - Samuel Beckett
Endgame is probably Beckett's second most famous play, after Waiting for Godot. It appears to have a post-apocalyptic setting, although what the apocalypse was is never defined and probably isn't the point.(Incidentally, isn't it interesting that something that is obviously SF is allowable in academ...
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