ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who is the author of ‘Endgame’?
A
G. B. Shaw
B
Samuel Beckett
C
R. K. Narayan
D
Earnest Hemingway
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Endgame, play in one act by Samuel Beckett, written in French as Fin de partie and produced and published in 1957. It was translated into English by the author.

Detailed explanation-2: -Analysis. Endgame is an expression of existential angst and despair and depicts Beckett’s philosophical worldview, namely the extreme futility of human life and the inescapable dissatisfaction and decay intrinsic to it.

Detailed explanation-3: -Samuel Beckett, Endgame (New York: Grove Press, 1958).

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