For 10 points, name this author of Happy Days, an Irishman who created the characters of Vladimir and Estragon in his play Waiting for Godot.
This author's attempts to efface the "realistic sources" of his works represent an "intent of undoing," according to Stanley Gontarski. This author analyzed the "total objects" created by Pierre Tal-Coat in a set of correspondences with Georges Duthuit ("doo-TWEE") published as Three Dialogues. A character created by this man describes how a "gravedigger puts on the forceps" before claiming that "habit is the great deadener." After her parasol catches on fire, a character created by this author opens a music-box that plays a waltz from The Merry Widow. That character created by this author talks to her husband Willie while buried in a mound of earth. In his best-known work, two characters discuss whether to hang themselves from a lone tree that appears onstage. For 10 points, name this author of Happy Days, an Irishman who created the characters of Vladimir and Estragon in his play Waiting for Godot.
This author's attempts to efface the "realistic sources" of his works represent an "intent of undoing," according to Stanley Gontarski.
Samuel Beckett &lt;Drama&gt;