TY - BOOK AU - Beckett,Samuel AU - Beckett,Samuel TI - Endgame: a play in one act ; followed by Act without words I : a mime for one player SN - 9780802144393 (pbk.) AV - PQ2603.E378 F513 2009 U1 - 822.91/4 22 PY - 2009///?] CY - New York PB - Grove Press KW - English drama KW - 20th century N1 - Endgame originally published under the title: Fin de partie. Act without words I originally published as: Acte sans paroles I N2 - Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 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 ER -