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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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The English title is taken from the last part of chess when there are very few pieces left. The French title applies to games besides chess, Beckett lamenting there's no English equivalent. Beckett was an avid player; the struggle of Hamm to accept the end compares to the refusal of novice players to admit defeat.
Harold Bloom considers Hamm to allude to Hamlet: 'its time it ended...& yet I hesitate, I hesitate to...to end.' He contends this is an intertext with the 'To be or not to be' soliloquy, in which doubt prevents action. Endgame is devoid of action, in Beckett's typical absurdist style.
It's possible Hamm also relates to ham actor & Ham, son of Noah, while Clov is a truncated version of Clown, as well as suggesting cloven hoof & glove--a distant echo of hand & glove. Nagg suggests nagging & the German nagen, to gnaw, while Nell recalls Dickens' Little Nell. (Theodor Adorno Trying to Understand Endgame). Equally Hamm could be short for Hammer & Clov be clove (etymologically nail), hammer & nail representing one aspect of their relationship. In this light, Nagg & Nell, taken together, may suggest the German Nagel, nail.
Ruby Cohn, in Back to Beckett, writes that "Beckett's favorite line in the play is Hamm's deduction from Clov's observation that Nagg is crying: 'Then he's living.' But in Berlin he felt that the most important sentence is Nell's 'Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.' & he directed his play to show the fun of unhappiness."
The play's implication is that the characters are static. Each day contains the actions & reactions of that before, until each event takes on a ritualistic quality. It's made clear, thru the text, that the characters have a past--Nagg & Nell conjure up memories of tandem rides in the Ardennes. There's no indication they've futures. Even the death of Nell, which occurs towards the end, is greeted with a lack of surprise. The isolated setting & constant references to lost aspects of civilisation, have led many to suggest the play is post-nuclear. Beckett denied this.]]> 1957 1 0 false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 1970 Fri Nov 07 13:43:18 -0800 2008 Sun Apr 05 22:06:40 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 8685658 579523 12287 0571070671 9780571070671 21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166494865m/12287.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166494865s/12287.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12287.Endgame 3.87 655 1957 4 0 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Nov 05 03:08:56 -0800 2007 Mon Nov 05 03:13:05 -0800 2007 2308833 142079 12287 0571070671 9780571070671 21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166494865m/12287.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166494865s/12287.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12287.Endgame 3.87 655 1957 3 0 false Sat Jun 23 15:58:59 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 22:30:16 -0800 2009 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=12287