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Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts (1953)

by Samuel Beckett

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This volume is an absurdist play in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait endlessly and in vain for the arrival of someone named Godot. They claim he's an acquaintance but in fact hardly know him, admitting that they would not recognize him when they do see him. To occupy the time they eat, sleep, converse, argue, sing, play games, exercise, swap hats, and contemplate suicide -- anything "to hold the terrible silence at bay". Throughout the play, the audience may encounter religious, philosophical, classical, psychoanalytical, biographical, and especially wartime references.… (more)
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    Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard (guyalice)
    guyalice: Stoppard's play's been called "Waiting for Hamlet," as both are existentialist plays featuring a pair of clueless (yet tragic) idiots.
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    Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco (interference)
    interference: Ebenfalls ein Klassiker des Absurden Theaters.
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    Incidences by Daniil Kharms (ateolf)
  4. 20
    The Trial by Franz Kafka (SandraArdnas)
    SandraArdnas: Both masterpieces of the absurd
  5. 10
    The Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe (christiguc)
  6. 10
    Seven Plays by Sam Shepard (SandraArdnas)
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    Mercier and Camier by Samuel Beckett (EMS_24)
    EMS_24: Two man, trying to escape the city what doesn't succeed. Absurdism, exentialism, repetition.
  8. 03
    Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel (Othemts)
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I wanted to like this, but I could not stand this. This play was so boring. I understand the message, but it was terrible. I almost fell asleep multiple times while reading it. ( )
  CaitlinDaugherty | Aug 28, 2023 |
Nope. ( )
  judeprufrock | Jul 4, 2023 |
4½ stars.

Impossible for me to summarize my thoughts on this in any coherent fashion.
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  leslie.98 | Jun 27, 2023 |
My concentration intentionally shattered by the writer. Who is Godot? Why wait? ( )
  kyl804 | Jun 4, 2023 |
nice try though ( )
  hk- | Apr 12, 2023 |
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Author nameRoleType of authorWork?Status
Beckett, Samuelprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Andrade, Fabio de SouzaTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Brée, GermaineEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Bryden, MaryIntroductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Deardoff, Kenneth R.Cover designersecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Duckworth, ColinEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Eriksson, Göran O.Translatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Eriksson, Lill-IngerTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Kuhlman, RoyCover designersecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Ouředník, PatrikTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Phillips, TomIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Schoenfeld, EricEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed

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Estragon, sitting on a low mound, is trying to take off his boot. He pulls at it with both hands, panting. He gives up, exhausted, rests, tries again.
As before.
Enter Vladimir
ESTRAGON: (giving up again) Nothing to be done.
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"Don't talk to me. Don't speak to me. Stay with me."
ESTRAGON: Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful!
ESTRAGON: We've lost our rights?
VLADIMIR: [Distinctly.] We got rid of them.
VLADIMIR: That passed the time.
ESTRAGON: It would have passed in any case.
VLADIMIR: Yes, but not so rapidly.
VLADIMIR: Moron!
ESTRAGON: Vermin!
VLADIMIR: Abortion!
ESTRAGON: Morpion!
VLADIMIR: Sewer-rat!
ESTRAGON: Curate!
VLADIMIR: Cretin!
ESTRAGON: [With finality.] Crritic!
VLADIMIR: Oh!
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3518365010 1971 softcover trilingual suhrkamp taschenbuch 1
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This volume is an absurdist play in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait endlessly and in vain for the arrival of someone named Godot. They claim he's an acquaintance but in fact hardly know him, admitting that they would not recognize him when they do see him. To occupy the time they eat, sleep, converse, argue, sing, play games, exercise, swap hats, and contemplate suicide -- anything "to hold the terrible silence at bay". Throughout the play, the audience may encounter religious, philosophical, classical, psychoanalytical, biographical, and especially wartime references.

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