by Samuel Beckett · Grove Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780802144393
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«Endgame and Act Without Words» is the theater volume by Samuel Beckett published by Grove Press in paperback (112 pages, in English).
The volume brings together two pieces by Samuel Beckett: «Endgame», written in French as «Fin de partie» and translated into English by the author himself, presents a claustrophobic wait marked by repetition and the proximity of the end; «Act Without Words I» is a piece without dialogue that shows, only through gestures, the frustration of existing in a hostile environment.
The original «Endgame» was published in 1957 in French as «Fin de partie»; «Act Without Words I» comes from «Acte sans paroles I».
For theater and literature readers interested in the theater of the absurd and in the work of Samuel Beckett.
Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish novelist, playwright, poet, and literary critic. Writing in both English and French, his literary and theatrical works feature bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic episodes of life, coupled with black comedy and literary nonsense. Beckett is widely regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century, credited with transforming modern theatre. As a major figure of Irish literature, he is best known for his tragicomedy play Waiting for Godot (1953). For his foundational contribution to both literature and theatre, Beckett received the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation."
