The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 3, 1957–1965

Volume three of the acclaimed four-volume edition of the letters of one of the twentieth century's greatest literary figures.

Samuel Beckett (Author), George Craig (Edited by), Martha Dow Fehsenfeld (Edited by), Dan Gunn (Edited by), Lois More Overbeck (Edited by)

9780521867955, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 18 September 2014

816 pages, 29 b/w illus.
22.3 x 14.3 x 4 cm, 1.27 kg

'The Letters of Samuel Beckett series is a superb achievement of scholarship and publishing, wonderfully presented and richly annotated.' New York Review of Books

This third volume of The Letters of Samuel Beckett focuses on the years when Beckett is striving to find a balance between the demands put upon him by his growing international fame, and his need for the peace and silence from which new writing might emerge. This is the period in which Beckett launches into work for radio, film and, later, into television. It also marks his return to writing fiction, with his first major piece for a decade, Comment c'est (How It Is). Where hitherto he has been reticent about the writing process, now he devotes letter after letter to describing and explaining his work in progress. For the first time Beckett has a woman as his major correspondent: a relationship shown in his intense and abundant letters to Barbara Bray. The volume also provides critical introductions, chronologies, explanatory notes and profiles of Beckett's main correspondents.

List of illustrations
General introduction
French translator's preface George Craig
Editorial procedures
Acknowledgements
Permissions
List of abbreviations
Introduction to Volume III Dan Gunn
Letters, 1957–1965
Appendix: profiles
Bibliography of works cited
Index of recipients
Index of first names
Summary listing of Samuel Beckett's works, Volume III
General index.

Subject Areas: Diaries, letters & journals [BJ]