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9780521867931
Book Title
Letters of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1940
Item Length
8.7in
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Cambridge University Press
Publication Year
2009
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Hardcover
Language
English
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1.8in
Author
Samuel Beckett
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Literary Criticism, Literary Collections
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Letters, European / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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5.8in
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46.6 Oz
Number of Pages
866 Pages

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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.

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Cambridge University Press
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0521867932
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9780521867931
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Book Title
Letters of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1940
Author
Samuel Beckett
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Letters, European / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Literary Criticism, Literary Collections
Number of Pages
866 Pages

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Item Length
8.7in
Item Height
1.8in
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
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Pr6003.E282 Z48 2009
Volume Number
Vol. 1
Reviews
'The most bracing read [of 2009] was The Letters of Samuel Beckett, 19291940, a portrait of the Dubliner as a young European with a hard gemlike gift for language, learning and mockery. … Constantly Beckett is veering between certainty about his need to write and doubt about the results, all expressed in prose that is undoubting, delighted and demanding.' Seamus Heaney, 'Books of the Year 2009', Times Literary Supplement, '... brilliant, funny, flinty, and often quite surprising.' Barnes and Noble, The Best Books of 2009: Editors' Pick, "The youthful worrier of these compelling letters, who suggested that 'the man condemned to death is less afraid than I,' was not lying; Beckett was neither a poser nor a hysteric... In a magnificent letter of 1932, to McGreevy, Beckett had chastised one of his own poems for being facultatif, or optional. It did not, he said, 'represent a necessity.' These letters are a quest for necessity-for what must be written about, at whatever cost." -Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 'For all of us who love Samuel Beckett, there can be no more thrilling book. These letters not only cast light on his life and work, they are a considerable addition to his writing … This is a volume to treasure, not just study. No Beckett reader will need it recommended, merely announced.' David Sexton, The Evening Standard, "This is an extraordinary work of scholarship on the part of its main editors... What Fehsenfeld and Overbeck have produced is a revelatory triumph." The Los Angeles Times, "There is fluent and brilliant evidence here of Beckett's development of his unique and irreplaceable voice... Unfalteringly brilliant, this volume is of the same order as The Letters of Van Gogh, or the diaries of Kafka." -Nicholas Foxton, Time Out (London) "Here is the authentic early Beckettian tang, straight from the source, unmediated by artifice... Beckett's strong language is one of the things that give the letters their pungency and drive; it is a testament also to the suppleness, rigour and strength of his writing that they don't seem in any way dated, unless a wide frame of cultural reference is these days in itself passé... There are treasures upon treasures here." -Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian "The editors are to be applauded for their remarkable efforts in tracing every fleeting reference in the notes... Roll on volume two." -Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, The Daily Telegraph "This is an important work of impeccable scholarship directed not only at Beckett academics but informed fans seeking the man behind Godot. This volume is a landmark in our quest to understand Beckett's great esoteric works and has definitely been worth the wait." -The Washington Independent Review of Book, "Knowing as we do that Samuel Beckett is the only writer who can sum up the agonies and ecstasies of the twentieth century, if we had any doubts as to his relevance today, they would be dispelled by the amazing treasure trove contained in his letters-at last we are made privy to the full range of his passion for art and beauty, which is neither naïve nor sentimental, to the pyrotechnics of his savage wit, and more lastingly perhaps, to his deep humanity." - Jean-Michel Rabaté, Vartan Gregorian Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, "This is an extraordinary work of scholarship on the part of its main editors... What Fehsenfeld and Overbeck have produced is a revelatory triumph." Los Angeles Times, "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. Reading the 780 pages is like rediscovering Beckett the man in high definition and hearing in full stereo the emerging voice that would, quite literally, transform the world of literature and theatre in the last half of the 20th century... a breathtaking and essential work of human understanding... This is a great book; simply priceless." -Gerald Dawe, The Sunday Business Post "In literary annals, 2009 may well go down as the year that saw the publication of not this or that novel, set of poems, or 'important' theory book, but, quirkily enough, the first of four promised volumes of the letters of Samuel Beckett... Can a writer's letters - occasional and ephemeral as these tend to be - really qualify as great literature? In Beckett's case, yes. For here is the most reticent of twentieth-century writers, one who refused to explain his plays and fictions, wrote almost no formal literary criticism, and refused to attend his own Nobel Prize ceremony - revealing himself in letter after letter as warm, playful, unfailingly polite even at his most vituperative and scatological, irreverent but never cynical, and, above all, a brilliant stylist whose learning is without the slightest pretension or preciosity." -Marjorie Perloff, Bookforum, 'There is so much in the pages of this volume, and the editors honour both the writer and the reader with the painstaking detail with which they frame each carefully chosen letter. The excitement generated in this reader is not only from the perusal of the contents of this amazing collection of correspondence but of the promise of three more volumes to come.' Beverley Curran, Journal of Irish Studies, 'Be in no doubt about it, if Godot and Molloy lit up the dreary landscape of writing in the immediate post-war era, these letters are set to do the same for the new century.' Gabriel Josipovici, Times Literary Supplement, 'It would be an understatement to say we look forward to the sequel.' Bert Keizer, The Threepenny Review, 'In literary annals, 2009 may well go down as the year that saw the publication of not this or that novel, set of poems, or 'important' theory book, but, quirkily enough, the first of four promised volumes of the letters of Samuel Beckett …' Marjorie Perloff, Bookforum, 'The first volume of Beckett's letters, The Letters of Samuel Beckett, 19291940 (Cambridge University Press), was the funniest, most intelligent and most poignant book I read this year, and since three more volumes are promised by Cambridge University Press we should be moved and entertained for some years to come.' Gabriel Josipovici, 'Books of the Year 2009', Times Literary Supplement, 'It would hardly seem possible were the evidence not right here: Samuel Beckett, that most taciturn and private of 20th-century writers - the man who said 'every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness' - was in fact one of the century's great correspondents. ... reading it is far from homework: the Beckett we meet in these piquant letters, most written when he was in his late 20s and early 30s, is rude, mordantly witty and scatological yet often (and this is perhaps the biggest surprise) affectionate and wholehearted. ... There are many moments in these letters when it seems Samuel Beckett can't go on. But as we await Volumes 2, 3 and 4 of his busy correspondence, it's exceedingly clear that, happily, he will go on.' The New York Times, "It would hardly seem possible were the evidence not right here: Samuel Beckett, that most taciturn and private of 20th-century writers - the man who said "every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness" - was in fact one of the century's great correspondents... There are many moments in these letters when it seems Samuel Beckett can't go on. But as we await Volumes 2, 3 and 4 of his busy correspondence, it's exceedingly clear that, happily, he will go on." -Dwight Garner in The New York Times & The International Herald Tribune, "The letters of some of the greatest artists of their day, of Wordsworth and Cézanne, Proust and Eliot, for example, though occasionally moving and of interest because of who they were, would never figure in anyone's list of the ten or twenty greatest books of their time. The letters of Keats and van Gogh, Kafka and Wallace Stevens certainly would. And so, on the evidence of this volume, would those of Samuel Beckett... Be in no doubt about it, if Godot and Molloy lit up the dreary landscape of writing in the immediate post-war era, these letters are set to do the same for the new century." -Gabriel Josipovici, Times Literary Supplement "Since Samuel Beckett was incapable of writing a duff sentence, the first volume of his letters, 25 years in the making, has been awaited with high anticipation... There are, of course, some superbly dark Beckettisms among these letters. His most characteristic utterances are what he calls 'shining agates of negation'." -Jonathan Bate,The Sunday Telegraph, 'Since Samuel Beckett was incapable of writing a duff sentence, the first volume of his letters, 25 years in the making, has been awaited with high anticipation … There are, of course, some superbly dark Beckettisms among these letters. His most characteristic utterances are what he calls 'shining agates of negation'.' Jonathan Bate, The Sunday Telegraph, "The prospect of reading Beckett's letters quickens the blood like none other's, and one must hope to stay alive until the fourth volume is safely delivered." -Tom Stoppard "Impossible to mistake these letters for anyone else's work. Parts of them read like a nonfictionalized version of a Beckett novel." -Robin Moroney, The Wall Street Journal, 'This is an extraordinary work of scholarship ... the taciturn youth who became an artist of studied silences turns out to have been an inveterate letter writer - and, what's more, a fine one, which can't be said for many authors ... The correspondent who so frequently signs himself 'Sam' emerges from these letters a fully fleshed human being, by turns arrogant and kindly, depressed and determined.' Los Angeles Times, 'This edition is beautiful to read. It sets the very highest standards of presentation and organizes inherently complex and often partial material most coherently. For example, many letters written to Beckett are lost, yet the reader is able to infer the tone and scope of his correspondence through the editors' meticulous annotation.' M. S. Byron, The Review of English Studies, '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, "[This book] makes a mighty thunk on the coffee table. But reading it is far from homework: the Beckett we meet in these piquant letters, most written when he was in his late 20s and early 30s, is rude, mordantly witty and scatological yet often (and this is perhaps the biggest surprise) affectionate and wholehearted." The New York Times, 'Impossible to mistake these letters for anyone else's work. Parts of them read like a nonfictionalized version of a Beckett novel.' Robin Moroney, The Wall Street Journal, "Another way of explaining Beckett's exodus from English appears in the fantastic new The Letters of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1940. The first of four projected, this first volume is a marvel." Harper's Magazine, 'What this selection of letters reveals is not the great writer to come but an extraordinarily brilliant, tormentedly self-conscious and unhappy young man with a compelling urge to write. ... Beckett knew too much and felt too much about what he knew. ... This first of a promised four volumes (to include 2,500 out of a total 15,000 items of correspondence) represents already a heroic achievement by the editors who embarked on the project nearly a quarter of a century ago. ... The editorial team deserves all our thanks for their patience, their stamina and their scholarly rigour. Tom Stoppard is quoted on the back cover saying 'one must hope to stay alive until the fourth volume is safely delivered'. Agreed we must wait on for the later, greater Beckett.' The Irish Times, "The most bracing read [of 2009] was The Letters of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1940, a portrait of the Dubliner as a young European with a hard gemlike gift for language, learning and mockery. Beckett's genius exercises itself most exuberantly in the correspondence with Thomas MacGreevy, another Irish poet more at home in Paris, his senior but his soulmate. Constantly Beckett is veering between certainty about his need to write and doubt about the results, all expressed in prose that is undoubting, delighted and demanding." -Seamus Heaney, 'Books of the year 2009', the Times Literary Supplement "One of the highlights of the year was the publication of The Letters of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1940... Every page is a hoot. Beckett comes across as even smarter, and more smarting, than one already knew." -Paul Muldoon in "Books of the Year 2009", the Times Literary Supplement, 'Newly published letters not only shed fresh light on one of the greatest writers but are a significant addition to his oeuvre ... for all of us who love Samuel Beckett, there can be a no more thrilling book ... There are so many great Beckettian phrases here ... This is a volume to treasure, not just study. No Beckett reader will need it recommended, merely announced ...' The Evening Standard, 'one Can only Marvel at the Project, and Eagerly Await Volumes II, III and IV.' Nordic Irish Studies, 'It is to the inestimable credit of the editors of this book that fully readable and copiously annotated versions of the letters are presented here - they are, quite literally, a sight for sore eyes.' The Irish Independent, "The editorial work behind this project has been immense in scale. Every book that Beckett mentions, every painting, every piece of music is tracked down and accounted for... The standard of the commentary is of the highest. . . The Letters of Samuel Beckett is a model edition. " -J.M. CoetzeeThe New York Review of Books, "If volume one is any indication of the whole, we can expect three more thoroughly researched and professionally documented volumes, arranged yearly with handy chronologies, useful indexes, intelligent translations, clear introductions, large print, and helpful profiles of the main characters. The editors correct ordering problems in some of the archival collections and they explain and corroborate an enormous amount of detail" -Modernism/Modernity, James McNaughton, University of Alabama, "The prospect of reading Beckett's letters quickens the blood like none other's, and one must hope to stay alive until the fourth volume is safely delivered." -Tom Stoppard, 'Judging by this exemplary inaugural selection, the overall enterprise promises to be an extraordinary commitment, not only to the scholarly virtues of patience, concentration and scrupulousness but to a deep sense of the cultural value of the writer as a twentieth-century avatar … we must be grateful for the opportunity this magnificent work of scholarship provides to reflect on what there is to be known, and the conflicts and crises its subject underwent in his fidelity to the strange, demanding and all too human need to speak his mind.' George O'Brien, Dublin Review of Books, '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. Reading the 780 pages is like rediscovering Beckett the man in high definition and hearing in full stereo the emerging voice that would, quite literally, transform the world of literature and theatre in the last half of the 20th century. ... Reading this collection, one is continually amazed by Beckett's mind - his phenomenal reading, the range of his learning across many languages and the intensity of his young life in Trinity College and in the wider reaches of Dublin social and literary life, of which he was a constantly strained and disaffected observer ... The Letters reveals an as yet unwritten social history of Irish and European literature: the Beckett Era ... This is a great book; simply priceless ...' The Sunday Business Post, 'Great as a playwright, novelist and poet, Samuel Beckett also wrote letters of enduring worth ... The letters of some of the greatest artists of their day, of Wordsworth and Cèzanne, Proust and Eliot, for example, though occasionally moving and of interest because of who they were, would never figure in anyone's list of the ten or twenty greatest books of their time. The letters of Keats and van Gogh, Kafka and Wallace Stevens certainly would. And so, on the evidence of this volume, would those of Samuel Beckett ... be in no doubt about it, if Godot and Molloy lit up the dreary landscape of writing in the immediate post-war era, these letters are set to do the same for the new century.' Times Literary Supplement, '… these similarly anticipated letters have quite definitely arrived, and in an edition more sumptuous than one ever imagined. Has any modern author been better served by his editors than Beckett? … Best of all, each letter is annotated in detail, with every person, event and allusion scrupulously identified.' Michael Dirda, The Washington Post, "Above all, this volume is an opportunity to become acquainted with Beckett the writer before he was established." -Jane Shilling, The Daily Mail "Beautifully edited and annotated." -Philip Hensher, The Spectator "One can hardly wait for Volume Two." -John Walsh, The Independent "For Beckett enthusiasts, these letters are crammed with unexpected treasures, including displays of his dazzling erudition as an amateur art historian and his charmingly impractical ideas for the alternative careers he might pursue: gallery curator? Advertising man? Commercial pilot? Assistant to the Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein? There will be three more volumes in this admirable series; the next will cover 1945 to 1956 (the year Waiting for Godot was first produced in Britain, and the unknown author suddenly became world famous). Like Vladimir and Estragon, we fans will find it hard to wait." -Kevin Jackson, The Sunday Times, 'Knowing as we do that Samuel Beckett is the only writer who can sum up the agonies and ecstasies of the twentieth century, if we had any doubts as to his relevance today, they would be dispelled by the amazing treasure trove contained in his letters - at last we are made privy to the full range of his passion for art and beauty, which is neither naïve nor sentimental, to the pyrotechnics of his savage wit, and more lastingly perhaps, to his deep humanity.' Jean-Michel Rabatè, Vartan Gregorian Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, "[This book] makes a mighty thunk on the coffee table. But reading it is far from homework: the Beckett we meet in these piquant letters, most written when he was in his late 20s and early 30s, is rude, mordantly witty and scatological yet often (and this is perhaps the biggest surprise) affectionate and wholehearted." -The New York Times "This is an extraordinary work of scholarship on the part of its main editors... What Fehsenfeld and Overbeck have produced is a revelatory triumph." -Los Angeles Times, 'At nearly 800 pages and bulwarked with extensive introductory and biographical material, this first volume is a formidable work of scholarship, destined to assume its rightful place beside The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats and the Letters of James Joyce as essential reading of 20th century Anglophone literature. ... The iconic image of Beckett as a wizened, austere prophet of the barrenness and inhuman desolation of the modern world is dispelled, or at least qualified, on nearly every page of this epistolary portrait of a prodigiously gifted, neurotic, humane, and, malgrè lui, ineluctably human writer.' The Oxonian, "Admirers of Samuel Beckett, arguably the greatest writer in English of the second half of the 20th century, have grown used to waiting for Godot, who will surely come tomorrow or, just possibly, the day after. In the meantime, these similarly anticipated letters have quite definitely arrived, and in an edition more sumptuous than one ever imagined. Has any modern author been better served by his editors than Beckett'... Best of all, each letter is annotated in detail, with every person, event and allusion scrupulously identified." -Michael Dirda, The Washington Post, "Another way of explaining Beckett's exodus from English appears in the fantastic new The Letters of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1940. The first of four projected, this first volume is a marvel." -Harper's Magazine, 'Knowing as we do that Samuel Beckett is the only writer who can sum up the agonies and ecstasies of the twentieth century, if we had any doubts as to his relevance today, they would be dispelled by the amazing treasure trove contained in his letters - at last we are made privy to the full range of his passion for art and beauty, which is neither na ve nor sentimental, to the pyrotechnics of his savage wit, and more lastingly perhaps, to his deep humanity.' Jean-Michel Rabatè, Vartan Gregorian Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, "For all of us who love Samuel Beckett, there can be no more thrilling book. These letters not only cast light on his life and work, they are a considerable addition to his writing... This is a volume to treasure, not just study. No Beckett reader will need it recommended, merely announced." David Sexton in The Evening Standard "In the final letter of this astonishing volume Beckett reveals a startlingly self-aware perception to Marthe van Velde: 'You think you are choosing something, and it is always yourself that you choose; a self aht you did not know, if you are lucky'... This edition is beautiful to red. It sets the very highest standards of presentation and organizes inherently complex and often partial material most coherently. For example, many letters written to Beckett are lost, yet the reader is able to infer the tone and scope of his correspondence through the editors' meticulous annotation." -M.S. Byron, The Review of English Studies "The editorial labor in this first volume is immensely impressive." -Denis Donoghue, The New Criterion, "The editorial work behind this project has been immense in scale. Every book that Beckett mentions, every painting, every piece of music is tracked down and accounted for... The standard of the commentary is of the highest. . . The Letters of Samuel Beckett is a model edition. " -J.M. Coetzee, The New York Review of Books "Compulsively readable, these letters from Samuel Beckett's most prolific decade show up all the Irish master's literary virtuosity and playfulness." -'Books of the Year', The Economist "This first volume of letters presents a young, itinerant Beckett at 22, living in Paris and writing to James Joyce. His first works are coming out: a study of Proust, a book of poetry, short stories and a novel, Murphy. In these letters, as in his career, he is warming up, assembling a style. Beckett grumbles better than anyone in the history of literature... Here is a Beckett absent from the more polished, public works: simultaneously feeling and writing, caring for words yet movingly unguarded." -Daniel Swift, The Financial Times, '... you find there not just Beckett melancholy and Beckett scatological but Beckett funny, astute, vulnerable, lonely, ambitious ... even flirtatious.' The Daily Mail
Table of Content
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.
Copyright Date
2009
Lccn
2008-025530
Dewey Decimal
848/.91409 B
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Series
The Letters of Samuel Beckett Ser.
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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