This book examines the role of Samuel Beckett in contemporary philosophical aesthetics, primarily through analysis of both his own essays and the various interpretations that philosophers especially Adorno, Blanchot, Deleuze, and Badiou have given to his works. The study centres around the fundamental question of the relationship between art and truth, where art, as a negative truth, comes to its complete exhaustion as Deleuze terms it by means of a series of 'endgames' that progressively involve philosophy, writing, language and every individual and minimal form of expression.br The major thesis of the book is that, at the heart of Beckett's philosophical project, this 'aesthetics of truth' turns out to be nothing other than the real subject itself, within a contradictory and tragic relationship that ties the SelfVoice to the ObjectBody. Yet a number of questions remain open. 'What' or 'who' lies behind this process What is left of the endgame of art and subjectivity Finally, what sus