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

ANSWER: Samuel Beckett [or Samuel Barclay Beckett]
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