Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Fin de partie / Endgame

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ALL THAT FALL

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This is the original MS of
my translation of Fin de
Partie
.
Samuel Beckett

Commenced May 1957
Finished June 1957

Created in French in
London, at the Royal
Court Theatre. April 1957

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for
Jake Schwarz
Sam. Beckett
Sept. 1957

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ALL TH
ENDGAME

Paris
7.5.57

[0001] Bare interior.
[0002] Grey light.
[0003] Left and right back, two small windows, High in the wall up, two small windows, with curtains drawn.
[0004] Front right a door. [0005] Hanging near the door,
its face to the wall, a picture.

[0006] Front left, touching each other, []two ashbins covered with an old sheet., two ashbins.
[0007] Centre, sit sitting in armchair on castors, covered with an old sheet, HAMM.
[0008] Motionless by the door, his eyes fixed on HAMM, CLOV. [0009] Very red face.
[0010] He goes and stands beneath the window left. [0011] Stiff, tottering walk. [0012] He looks up at window left,. [0013] tu He turns and his head & looks at window right. [0014] He goes and stands beneath window right. [0015] He looks up at window right. [0016] He turns and his head and looks at window left. [0017] He goes out, comes back immediately with a small step-ladder, sets it down under window left, gets up on it, draws it back the curtain. [0018] He gets down, takes four six paces towards window right, goes back for the ladder, sets it down under window right, gets up on it, draws back the curtain. [0019] He gets down, takes three paces towards window left, goes back for ladder, sets it down under under window left, gets up on it, looks out of the window. [0020] Brief laugh. [0021] He xxx gets down, takes one pace towards window right, goes back for ladder, sets it down under window right, gets up on it, looks out of window. [0022] Brief laugh. [0023] He gets down, goes with ladder towards the ashbins, halts, turns, sets down ladder under window right, goes to

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[0023] ashbins, removes the sheet which covers them, folds it over his arm. [0024] He lifts one lid, stoops and looks into the bin. [0025] Brief laugh. [0027] Same with other bin. [0026] He closes lid. [0027] Same with other bin. [0028] He goes to Hamm, removes sheet which covers him, folds it with the other over his arm. [0029] In a dressing-gown, a stiff toque on his head, a large blood-stained handkerchief over his face, a whistle hanging from his neck, a rug over his knees, thick socks on his feet, Hamm appears to sleep seems to be asleep. [0030] Clove Clov looks at him. [0031] Brief laugh. [0032] He goes to the door, halts, turns, contemplates the scene, turns towards the auditorium.

Clov

[0033] (fixed gaze, tonelessly). [0034] The end, it's the end, it's coming to the end, perhaps it's coming to the end. [0035] (Pause) [0036] Grain on grain, one by one, and one day, suddenly, it's a heap, a little heap, the impossible heap. [0037] (Pause.) [0038] I can't be punished any more. [0039] (Pause) [0040] I'll go now to my kitchen, ten feet by ten feet by ten feet, and wait for him to whistle me. [0041] (Pause) [0042] Nice dimensions, nice proportions, I'll lean upon on the table and I'll look upon at the wall, and wait for him to whistle me.

[0043] He remains motionless a moment, [0044]then goes out. [0045] He comes back immediately, goes to the window right, takes up the ladder and carries it out. [0046] Pause. [0047] Hamm stirs. [0048] He yawns under the handkerchief. [0049] He takes the handker removes the handkerchief from his face. [0050] Very red face. [0051] Black glasses.

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