This edition makes available for the first time a comprehensive range of letters by one of the twentieth century's greatest literary figures. The four volumes (19291989) follow Beckett from his early writings, though the pivotal points in his life and career, to his later works.
The complete, critically acclaimed Cambridge edition of The Letters of Samuel Beckett makes available for the first time a comprehensive range of letters by one of the twentieth century's greatest literary figures. The four volumes, spanning the period from 1929 to 1989, follow Beckett from his early writings, though the pivotal points in his personal life and career as he achieved ever-growing international fame, to his later work and life where he turned his mind to his legacy. Each volume provides detailed introductions, as well as translations of the letters, explanatory notes, year-by-year chronologies, profiles of correspondents and other contextual information.
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The acclaimed four-volume edition of the letters of one of the twentieth century's greatest literary figures.
Volume 1: General introduction; French translator's preface George
Craig; German translator's preface Viola Westbrook; Editorial procedures;
Acknowledgments; Permissions; Abbreviations; Introduction to Volume 1;
Letters, 19291940; Appendix; Profiles; Bibliography; Index. Volume 2:
General introduction; French translator's preface George Craig; Editorial
procedures; Acknowledgments; Permissions; Abbreviations; Introduction to
Volume 2 Dan Gunn; Letters, 19411956; Profiles; Bibliography; Index. Volume
3: List of illustrations; General introduction; French translator's preface
George Craig; Editorial procedures; Acknowledgements; Permissions; List of
abbreviations; Introduction to Volume 3 Dan Gunn; Letters, 19571965;
Appendix: profiles; Bibliography of works cited; Index of recipients; Index
of first names; Summary listing of Samuel Beckett's works, Volume 3; General
index. Volume 4: 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, 19661989; 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.
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.
