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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 of this author’s collection (15[1])Nohow (“NO-how”) On, Worstward Ho, says to “Fail again. Fail better.” While on the run from the Gestapo, 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 an (*) “old stancher.” (10[1])That play by this author features a character who cannot sit (10[1])and another who cannot (10[1])stand. A novel partially narrated by the detective Jacques Moran is part of a trilogy by this author along with The Unnamable and Malone Dies. Nagg and Nell live in trash cans in a play by this author about Hamm and his servant Clov. For 10 points, Molloy is by what Irish author of Endgame? ■END■

ANSWER: Samuel Beckett [or Samuel Barclay Beckett]
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