The Letters of Samuel Beckett

by Samuel Beckett , Edited by Martha Dow Fehsenfeld , Lois More Overbeck , Edited in association with Dan Gunn , George Craig

• ISBN13: 9780521867931
• ISBN10: 0521867932
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-02-23
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The letters written by Samuel Beckett between 1929 and 1940 provide a vivid and personal view of Western Europe in the 1930s, and mark the gradual emergence of Beckett's unique voice and sensibility. The Cambridge University Press edition of The Letters of Samuel Beckett offers for the first time a comprehensive range of letters of one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century. Selected for their bearing on his work from over 15,000 extant letters, the letters published in this four-volume edition encompass sixty years of Beckett's writing life (1929-1989), and include letters to friends, painters and musicians, as well as to students, publishers, translators, and colleagues in the world of literature and theater. For anyone interested in twentieth-century literature and theater this edition is essential reading, offering not only a record of Beckett's achievements but a powerful literary experience in itself.

Table of Contents

General introduction

French translator's preface George Craig

German translator's preface Viola Westbrook

Editorial procedures

Acknowledgments

Permissions

Abbreviations

Introduction to Volume I

Letters

Appendix

Profiles

Bibliography

Index

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