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October 4th 1976
(first published 1957)
by Faber and Faber
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Paperback, 60 pages
isbn
0571070671
(isbn13: 9780571070671)
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Read in January, 2006
recommends it for:
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While I read this in French last year, I can imagine that the English version is just as good. Samuel Beckett was Irish and write in English, German, and French. This play is full of black humour but humour just the same...I love it!
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recommends it for:
those seeking an impossible departure.
"how does one advance a pawn?"
a must-read. i love the use of spacious pauses and silence that must be even more compelling on the stage.
a must-read. i love the use of spacious pauses and silence that must be even more compelling on the stage.
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Read in July, 2006
En lugar de terminar de una vez por todas 'Malone muere', decidí empezar otro libro de Beckett, 'Fin de partida'. Me costó sólo una mañana terminarlo, pero esto tampoco tiene mérito porque es una otra de teatro que no llega a las 100 páginas. Después, he intentado otra vez terminar 'Malone muere', pero la cosa se ha hecho imposible. Creo que ya lo dejo definitivamente por imposible.
'Fin de partida' no es tan brillante ni perfecto como 'Esperando a Godot', pero es que para mí pocos li...more
'Fin de partida' no es tan brillante ni perfecto como 'Esperando a Godot', pero es que para mí pocos li...more
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Read in February, 2008
We read this play for my Eng-Lit class. Now first let me point out that this is the first thing I have written by Beckett. In addition, it is also the first existentialist "thing" that I have read. Honestly, I think my first impression was just plain confusion, which may be one of the purposes of the play, but will we ever really know?
Anyways, after a discussion in class about this piece, I realized how difficult it must be to write something that never finishes. It never meets...more
Anyways, after a discussion in class about this piece, I realized how difficult it must be to write something that never finishes. It never meets...more
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Read in September, 2008
Luckily, Beckett doesn't write with any intended meaning and prefers his audience to gather their own thoughts about his work. I took this bleak play about Clov, Hamm, Nagg, and Nell; a caretaker, his ward, and the ward's parents (who are kept in bins), to be some bleak commentary about the end of days, the weariness of storytellers, and the fight to keep living even in the most miserable of conditions. The whole play is unsettling, despite plenty of verbal and physical humor.
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). "One day you'll be blind, like me", says Hamm. "You'll be sitting there, a speck in the void, in the dark, for ever, like me.
این نمایش نامه ی بکت هم با نام "آخر بازی" به فارسی برگردانده شده، و اگر مجموعه ی ترجمه شده ی نجف دریابندری چاپ و منتشر شده باشد، آخر بازی یکی از آنهاست.
این نمایش نامه ی بکت هم با نام "آخر بازی" به فارسی برگردانده شده، و اگر مجموعه ی ترجمه شده ی نجف دریابندری چاپ و منتشر شده باشد، آخر بازی یکی از آنهاست.
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Read in May, 1970
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College Theatre professorrecommends it for: Beckett fans
Grinnell College had a creative arts requirement which I fulfilled by taking Theatre during the freshman year. Our instructor, a late middle-aged alcoholic, ranged from apathy to enthusiasm. The former aspect was doubtless expressed in his assignment of Beckett's Endgame while the latter was evinced by his production of the entirety of Goethe's Faust.
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Read in August, 2007
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this is my undergraduate thesis material,I am now studying the absurdity in this play characters. if waiting for Godot is about waiting for something to come,endgame is about waiting for something to go...little sentimental perhaps.
Again...the writing is stunning...but I don't feel comfortable when I read Beckett. I suppose the violence of my reaction to Beckett's work is a testament to its power.
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Being by one of the greatest authors, it is very well written and should get five stars. However, as it is not quite in my tastes, I only gave it four.
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Though it's rough sailing, I liked this far more than Waiting for Godot.
"You cried for night; it falls: now cry in darkness."
"You cried for night; it falls: now cry in darkness."
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recommends it for:
Anyone willing to think about what he's reading.
This was supremely difficult to me, yet I know that it captured the inanity of twentieth-century life, masterfully.
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Read in February, 2008
Es teatro. Igual tiene un valor intrínseco, pero no es una novela. Sorry, pero la narrativa es mi debilidad.
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دو نمایش نامه ی کوتاه رادیویی از ساموئل بکت
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Read in March, 2003
Existentialism is hard man....thats all i got.
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"Hamm: And the horizon? Nothing on the horizon?
Clov: (Lowering the telescope, turning towards Hamm, exasperated): What in God's name would there be on the horizon? (Pause.)
Hamm: The waves, how are the waves?
Clov: The waves? (He turns the telescope on the waves.) Lead.
Hamm: And the sun?
Clove: (Looking) Zero.
Hamm: But it should be sinking. Look again.
Clov: (Looking) Damn the sun.
Hamm: Is it night already then?
Clov: (Looking) No.
Hamm: Then what is it?
Clov: (Looking) Gray. (Lowering the telescope, turning towards Hamm, louder.) Gray! (Pause, still louder.) GRRAY!"
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