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Krapp's last tape and Embers

by Samuel Beckett

These plays explore themes of memory and isolation. One work features an elderly man listening to recordings of his younger self, while the other depicts a man recalling his deceased father through voices from the past.

Accession 7464 ISBN 0571062091 Publisher Faber & Faber
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