Endgame (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Samuel Beckett
- First Published: 1957
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Absurdist
- Time of Work: Indeterminate
- Genres: Drama, Absurdist literature
- Subjects: Blindness or blind persons, Communication, Existentialism, Isolation
- Locales: Earth
Shelter. Unnamed place which is apparently the last refuge of humankind on Earth. In addition to providing the characters with protection from the outside world and sustaining them in the last moments of their lives, the shelter serves as both a prison and a tomb. High up on the left and right sides of the back wall are two small windows with curtains drawn. These windows look out on the other world, nature. All that is visible are an ashen gray sea, sky, and sun in the ever-fading light that represents the winding down of time and the extinction of life. Covered by a sheet in the...
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