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Endgame & Act Without Words I | Samuel Beckett

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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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Endgame and Act Without Words | Samuel Beckett

I read the Endgame by Samuel Beckett in a college lit course many years ago. It was the strangest thing I had ever read; I fell in love with it. It is absurd, similarly to the more popular Waiting for Godot, but it is darker and really disturbing.

I‘m excited to have found some filmed versions while making this pick, so I look forward to checking them out in the near future!

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Endgame & Act Without Words I | Samuel Beckett

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This is my first time actually reading the text of Endgame, after seeing a stunning filmed version some years ago. It's as violently claustrophobic and funny as I remember. And I feel comforted by it this time. Endgame doesn't need some grand gesture or epiphany to send to its audience, it's content to just stare into the void and invite us to stare alongside it. Not behind it, though, that'd give it the shivers.

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