The making of Samuel Beckett's Fin de partie / Endgame University of Antwerp
This volume of the BDMP analyses the genesis of Fin de partie / Endgame. Described by Samuel Beckett as more "inhuman' than Waiting for Godot and as possessing an ability to "claw', it was his favourite among all his plays and yet also a work the genesis of which was particularly arduous. It took Beckett many years to complete the French version, and about the translation process he complained in 1957: "What a losing battle it is always'. This ...