The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 4, 1966-1989

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

This fourth and final volume, which completes the Cambridge edition of The Letters of Samuel Beckett, covers the final twenty-four years of what was, as Beckett saw it, a surprisingly long life. During these years he produced many of his finest and most concentrated works for theatre, plays that included Not I, Ohio Impromptu, and Catastrophe; for television he wrote Eh Joe and Ghost Trio; while in prose, he produced the late 'trilogy' that comprises Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, and Worstward Ho. In 1969, Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, and the letters from this period show him struggling to cope with the pressures created by his ever-growing international fame. The letters reveal how, later, he turned his mind to his legacy, as seen through his interactions with biographers and archivists. This volume also provides chronologies, explanatory notes, translations, and profiles of Beckett's chief correspondents.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-09-29
Mått:147 x 223 x 45 mm
Vikt:1 390 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:The Letters of Samuel Beckett
Antal sidor:942
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521867962

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Mer om författaren

George Craig, Editor and French Translator, is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Sussex. Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Founding Editor, was authorised by Samuel Beckett to edit his correspondence in 1985. Dan Gunn, Editor, is Professor of Comparative Literature and English at The American University of Paris. Lois More Overbeck, General Editor, is a Research Associate of the Laney Graduate School, Emory University, Atlanta.

Recensioner i media

'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

Innehållsförteckning

List of illustrations; General introduction; French translator's preface George Craig; Editorial procedures; Acknowledgments; Permissions; Collections and abbreviations; Introduction to Volume 4 Dan Gunn; Letters, 1966–1989; Appendix: selection of letters from Samuel Beckett found after the appropriate volume of correspondence was published; Profiles; Bibliography of works cited; Index of recipients; Index of first names, abbreviations, and nicknames; Summary listing of Samuel Beckett's works, Volume 4; General index.