Question

Short pieces by this author include the libretto for Morton Feldman’s only opera, Neither, and the 35-second (15[1])play Breath. The last piece (15[1])of this author’s collection (15[1])Nohow (15[1])(“NO-how”) On, Worstward Ho, says to “Fail again. Fail better.” (15[6])While on the run from the Gestapo, (15[1])this author wrote a novel set in Mr. Knott’s house titled Watt. (15[5])A play (15[1])by this (15[1])author ends (15[1])as a character in an armchair covers his face with a handkerchief that he calls (15[2])an (*) “old stancher.” (10[2])That play (10[1])by this author features a character (10[1])who cannot (10[1])sit (10[1])and (10[1])another who cannot (10[3])stand. (10[1])A novel partially (10[1])narrated by the detective Jacques Moran is part of a trilogy (10[2])by this author along with The Unnamable and Malone (10[2])Dies. Nagg and Nell (10[2])live (10[1])in trash cans (10[3])in a play by this author about Hamm and his servant Clov. For 10 points, Molloy is by what Irish author of Endgame? ■END■ (10[3]0[1])

ANSWER: Samuel Beckett [or Samuel Barclay Beckett]
<CH, British Literature>
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