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

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-521-86796-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 942 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 1390 g

Reihe: The Letters of Samuel Beckett

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beckett, Samuel

Craig, George

Fehsenfeld, Martha Dow

Gunn, Dan

Overbeck, Lois More

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

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

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

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

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