Krapp's Last Tape & Embers

Samuel Beckett
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In the first of these two plays, an old man records his comments as he listens to a tape recording of his own observations on how life felt when he was 39. In the second, a man walking along the seashore recalls his dead father while other familiar voices speak to him from the past.
Genres: PlaysDramaTheatreFictionClassicsIrish LiteratureIrelandLiterature20th CenturyFrance
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