The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 1, 1929–1940 - Hardcover

Beckett, Samuel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521867932 ISBN 13: 9780521867931

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description:

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.

About the Author:

Martha Dow Fehsenfeld was authorised to edit Beckett's correspondence in 1985.

Lois More Overbeck is Research Associate in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Emory University, Atlanta.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521867932
• ISBN 13: 9780521867931
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 866
• Editor: Fehsenfeld Martha Dow, Overbeck Lois More