Samuel Beckett

The Letters of Samuel Beckett

Herausgegeben:Craig, George; Fehsenfeld, Martha Dow; Gunn, Dan; Overbeck, Lois More

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Produktbeschreibung

This final volume in the acclaimed edition of The Letters of Samuel Beckett covers the last twenty-four years of Beckett's life and work.

Produktdetails

• The Letters of Samuel Beckett 4
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 948
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 54mm
• Gewicht: 1394g
• ISBN-13: 9780521867962
• ISBN-10: 0521867967
• Artikelnr.: 45153197

Autorenporträt

Craig, George§George Craig, Editor and French Translator, is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Sussex.

Fehsenfeld, Martha Dow§Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Founding Editor, was authorised by Samuel Beckett to edit his correspondence in 1985.

Gunn, Dan§Dan Gunn, Editor, is Professor of Comparative Literature and English at The American University of Paris.

Overbeck, Lois More§Lois More Overbeck, General Editor, is a Research Associate of the Laney Graduate School, Emory University, Atlanta.

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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General introduction; French translator's preface George Craig; German translator's preface Viola Westbrook; Editorial procedures; Acknowledgments; Permissions; Abbreviations; Introduction to Volume 1; Letters, 1929-1940; Appendix; Profiles; Bibliography; Index.

Rezensionen

'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

'It is hard to credit the magisterial scholarship and publishing expertise that has gone into the editing of this first of four volumes of the letters of Samuel Beckett ... a breathtaking and essential work of human understanding ... This is a great book; simply priceless.' Gerald Dawe, The Sunday Business Post