num_pages: 60
description: 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 now 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.
language: English
title: Endgame
titlecomplete: Endgame
characters: Nagg, Hamm, Clov, Nell
genres: 20th Century, Theatre, School, Drama, Plays, Literature, Classics, Irish Literature, Fiction, France
ratings_count: 21132
awards: awardedAt: -378662400000
name: Obie
category: Best Foreign Play
publisher: Faber and Faber