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Such testimony is expressed in a Story, therefore waiting and its compensatory stories and myths are intrinsically related. Summary/Abstract: Waiting, even in the theatre of the absurd, could contain the testimony of an existence. boyhood fatherhood myth (mythos) ending childhood Published by: Editura Universitatii din Oradea Keywords: Beckett S. Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature The Child and the Impossible Endings in Beckett’s The Calmative and Endgame Author(s): Dana Sala

The Child and the Impossible Endings in Beckett’s The Calmative and Endgame

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