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Original Title:	Endgame and Act Without Words
ISBN:	0802150241 (ISBN13: 9780802150240)
Edition Language:	English

Endgame & Act Without Words

Samuel Beckett

Paperback | Pages: 96 pages

Rating: 3.98 | 8895 Users | 201 Reviews

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Title	:	Endgame & Act Without Words
Author	:	Samuel Beckett
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 96 pages
Published	:	January 12th 1994 by Grove Press (first published January 1st 1957)
Categories	:	Plays. Drama. Theatre. Fiction. Classics

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Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature n 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 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.

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This review probably says something about my intellect, but if it does, I dont really care. Holy pretentious metaphysics, stay away from this drama. Artistes might tell you this is Becketts finest masterpiece. My take is that I am making for myself a permanent rule: if the words French, surreal, and existential are words that describe the play or book I should leave it at the bookstore, and run away as fast as possible. The play begins with a man sitting in a recliner center stage covered by a

We do what we can.""We shouldn't.

All life long, the same questions, the same answers.I read this in a hospital. This morning. The patient was someone I don't know very well. It was thought that my presence would afford authority. I am not sure about that. The senseless ritual of life is unveiled in a drab flourish by Beckett. I love it. This isn't is powerful as Godot. There's no hope here -- for other than Death. There is memory and within that there's reverie, there's a lilting note which conveys. Our chores elongate without

It's unfortunate to see reviews of Beckett contain so many cliches. Defining his work by "existenial" or "absurd" -whether in a positive or negative context- is as reductive as defining Faulkner's works as "Southern" or Dostoyevski's as "psychological." Beckett strived to create original works that reflected his preoccupation with complex ideas of philosophers (Descartes and schopenhauer)and psychology (Young and Freud) He also belonged to the liteary generation (like Eliot and Joyce) that wrote

it's a play, so it's meant to be seen in a theatre, and i Need to see it on stage. but overall i loved this description of an absurd apocalypse.

Endgame feels, in many ways, like the same play as Waiting for Godot. Both plays use the same pair of, respectively, clever and dim-witted primary characters (Vladimir and Estragon in Godot, and Hamm and Clov in Endgame) presented in a gray, macabre setting. Knowing this makes it very easy to understand how Beckett structured these two plays, and how his character relations explicate themes--cerebral discord allows extensive and recursive banter. Personally, I didn't love the play. I've tried to

A friend recently gushed at me about Beckett's Endgame and about his plays in general, about the fascinating worlds they inhabit, and the characters they create. I haven't really read Beckett past Waiting for Godot, so I've been giving him a try. And I just don't think he's for me. "Act Without Words," described as a mime for one person, feels awfully relatable  it's just a description of a person onstage performing futile and wearying symbolic acts, while unseen forces in the wings torment and