Word: estragon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mood of Beckett's plays and novels is traumatic loss, a vestigial memory of the expulsion from Eden. With elegiac melancholy, Beckett intones a kyrie eleison without God. Waiting for Godot is hope's requiem. The two tramps Estragon and Vladimir wait in vain...