This authorised edition with full scholarly apparatus will be welcomed by all scholars of modern literature and drama.
Les Lettres Séries
Cette vaste collection de lettres de l'une des plus grandes figures littéraires du XXe siècle offre un aperçu fascinant de sa vie et de son œuvre. Elle retrace un parcours depuis les débuts hésitants de la création, remplis de doutes et de dépassement d'obstacles, jusqu'à la formation d'une voix littéraire unique. Adressées à des amis, des artistes et des collègues, ces lettres éclairent non seulement le développement créatif de l'auteur, mais le présentent également sous un jour nouveau et personnel. C'est une lecture captivante et perspicace qui offre une expérience unique.
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This second volume of The Letters of Samuel Beckett opens with the War years, when it was often impossible or too dangerous to correspond. The surge of letters beginning in 1945, and their variety, are matched by the outpouring and the range of Beckett's published work. Primarily written in French and later translated by the author, the work includes stories, a series of novels (Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable), essays and plays - most notably Waiting for Godot. The letters chronicle a passionately committed but little known writer evolving into a figure of international reputation, and his response to such fame. The volume provides detailed introductions which discuss Beckett's situation during the War and his crucial move into the French language, as well as translations of the letters, explanatory notes, year-by-year chronologies, profiles of correspondents and other contextual information.
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Letters of Samuel Beckett: 1957-1965
- 816pages
- 29 heures de lecture
This third volume of The Letters of Samuel Beckett focuses on the years when Beckett is striving to find a balance between the demands put upon him by his growing international fame, and his need for the peace and silence from which new writing might emerge. This is the period in which Beckett launches into work for radio, film and, later, into television. It also marks his return to writing fiction, with his first major piece for a decade, Comment c'est (How It Is). Where hitherto he has been reticent about the writing process, now he devotes letter after letter to describing and explaining his work in progress. For the first time Beckett has a woman as his major correspondent: a relationship shown in his intense and abundant letters to Barbara Bray. The volume also provides critical introductions, chronologies, explanatory notes and profiles of Beckett's main correspondents.
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'Here is a book which, as soon as I could get sight of a copy, I could not stop myself reading straight through, nothing being more urgent to me ... The temptation is only to quote. There is so much here of great value to those who study Beckett ... Every word Beckett wrote as only he could write it. That is why, as Dan Gunn says in his excellent introduction to this final volume, though the writing of letters can seem like a diversion from, or even obstruction of, his work, 'the writing of letters is also that work'. Now we can read them. This is a great piece of publication.' David Sexton, The Evening Standard