Samuel Beckett's Library

Samuel Beckett's Library PDF

Author: Dirk Van Hulle

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-06-28

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 1107001269

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The first study to assess the importance of the marginalia, inscriptions, and other manuscript notes in the 750 volumes of Samuel Beckett's personal library.

The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'Molloy'

The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'Molloy' PDF

Author: Dirk Van Hulle

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Published: 2017-10-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781472532565

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Originally published in French in 1951 and translated into English by the author himself four years later, Molloy is the first novel of Samuel Beckett's Trilogy, continued in Malone Dies and The Unnamable. The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'Molloy' is a comprehensive reference guide to the history of the text. The book includes: A complete descriptive catalogue of available relevant manuscripts, including French and English texts, alternative drafts and notebook pages A critical reconstruction of the history of the history of the text, from its genesis through the process of composition to its full publication history A detailed guide to exploring the manuscripts online at the Beckett Digital Manuscripts Project at www.beckettarchive.org This volume is part of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (BDMP), a collaboration between the Centre for Manuscript Genetics (University of Antwerp, Belgium), the Beckett International Foundation (University of Reading, UK) and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre (University of Texas at Austin, USA), with the support of the Estate of Samuel Beckett.

Beckett's Happy Days

Beckett's Happy Days PDF

Author: S. E. Gontarski

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 9780814254028

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Beckett's Happy Days: A Manuscript Study by S. E. Gontarski traces the development of Samuel Beckett's final two-act play, composed in English between October 1960 and May 1961, through annotated and bedoodled manuscript notebooks, holographs, and typescript drafts to the final published and performed text. The analysis details Beckett's most salient alterations and revisions, including his development of the work's tapestry of fragmented, half-remembered literary allusions. The current reissue of Beckett's Happy Days comes at a timely moment not only in Beckett studies but also in the general growth in programs of book history and digital humanities. Gontarski's study is not just a look back to origins. It traces an arc of research that developed over forty years as the Samuel Beckett archive at the University of Reading matured, as the fields of genetic and textual research grew, and as book history reemerged on a grand, international scale. In this timeframe, the Beckett Digital Manuscript and Library Projects responded to interest in Beckett studies and archival studies, taking textual production, genetic study, and book history into the twenty-first century with their emphasis on electronic access and digital collation. At The Ohio State University, the Rare Books and Manuscripts archive held papers central to Gontarski's study. Beckett's Happy Days is thus a fundamental, even seminal, part of that forty-year scholarly trajectory, and in its current edition, is readily accessible to individual students and scholars alike.

Samuel Beckett and the Visual

Samuel Beckett and the Visual PDF

Author: Conor Carville

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-04-12

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1108422772

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This book outlines Beckett's passion for the visual arts as he developed his signature style between the 1930s and 1970s.

Murphy

Murphy PDF

Author: Samuel Beckett

Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Published: 2011-01-11

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780802198365

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Murphy, Samuel Beckett’s first published novel, is set in London and Dublin, during the first decades of the Irish Republic. The title character loves Celia in a “striking case of love requited” but must first establish himself in London before his intended bride will make the journey from Ireland to join him. Beckett comically describes the various schemes that Murphy employs to stretch his meager resources and the pastimes that he uses to fill the hours of his days. Eventually Murphy lands a job as a nurse at Magdalen Mental Mercyseat hospital, where he is drawn into the mad world of the patients which ends in a fateful game of chess. While grounded in the comedy and absurdity of much of daily life, Beckett’s work is also an early exploration of themes that recur throughout his entire body of work including sanity and insanity and the very meaning of life.

The Unnamable

The Unnamable PDF

Author: Samuel Beckett

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2012-10-04

Total Pages: 109

ISBN-13: 0571266924

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The iconic trilogy of novels by the era-defining Nobel laureate, relaunched for a new generation. I can't go on, I'll go on. Molloy: a sordid vagrant riding his bicycle through the countryside, sucking stones, on a quest for his mother. Moran: a private detective sent on his trail, investigating his crimes - but soon to deteriorate alongside him. Malone: an octogenarian man on his deathbed, naked in piles of blankets, wiling away the time with stories - writing, reminiscing, raging, surviving. The Unnameable: an armless and legless creature from a nameless place, weeping and watching in his urn, orbited by visitors outside a chop-house. Together, these selves speak, debate, exist: the prose as alive, or more, than them. 'The master innovator of them all.' Guardian

The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot'/'En attendant Godot'

The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot'/'En attendant Godot' PDF

Author: Dirk Van Hulle

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Published: 2018-03-22

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781472524874

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First performed in 1953, Waiting for Godot is Samuel Beckett's masterpiece and one of the most important dramatic works of the 20th century. The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot'/'En attendant Godot' is a comprehensive reference guide to the history of the text. The book includes: A complete descriptive catalogue of available relevant manuscripts, including French and English texts, alternative drafts and notebook pages A critical reconstruction of the history of the text, from its genesis through the process of composition to its full publication history A detailed guide to exploring the manuscripts online at the Beckett Digital Manuscripts Project at www.beckettarchive.org This volume is part of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (BDMP), a collaboration between the Centre for Manuscript Genetics (University of Antwerp, Belgium), the Beckett International Foundation (University of Reading, UK) and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre (University of Texas at Austin, USA), with the support of the Estate of Samuel Beckett.

The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'Krapp's Last Tape'/'La derniere bande'

The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'Krapp's Last Tape'/'La derniere bande' PDF

Author: Dirk Van Hulle

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Published: 2016-05-19

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781472534231

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First performed at the Royal Court Theatre in 1958, Krapp's Last Tape has since become widely celebrated as one of Samuel Beckett's most important and powerful plays. The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'La dernière bande'/'Krapp's Last Tape' is a comprehensive reference guide to the history of the text. The book includes: - A complete descriptive catalogue of available relevant manuscripts, including French and English texts, alternative drafts and notebook pages - A critical reconstruction of the history of the history of the text, from its genesis through the process of composition to its full publication history - A detailed guide to exploring the manuscripts online at the Beckett Digital Manuscripts Project at www.beckettarchive.org This volume is part of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (BDMP), a collaboration between the Centre for Manuscript Genetics (University of Antwerp, Belgium), the Beckett International Foundation (University of Reading, UK) and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre (University of Texas at Austin, USA), with the support of the Estate of Samuel Beckett.