Author: Samuel Beckett Title: Fin de Partie Suivi de Acte Sans Paroles
Description: Paris, Les Editions de Minuit, 1957. Paperback. A smart copy of two short plays from Irish writer Samuel Beckett, in French. French. This work contains two short plays from Samuel Barclay Beckett, an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. These include: Endgame: an absurdist, tragicomic one-act play following a blind, paralyzed, domineering elderly man, his geriatric parents, and his servile companion in an abandoned house in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, who await an unspecified "end". Act Without Words: a mime originally written in French before being translated into English by Beckett himself. It was written in 1956 following a request from the dancer Deryk Mendel. In the original paper binding. Externally, very smart with minor wear to the extremities and minor sunning to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Much of the text block remains unopened. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine .
Keywords: Fin Partie Acte Paroles Partie Endgame Act Without Words None
Price: GBP 30.00 = appr. US$ 42.84 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 920T54
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