Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript ProjectFin de partie / Endgame

MS-HRC-SB-3-5

MS. Pages:

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^{ALL THAT FALL}

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^CDDD=

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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.