Samuel Beckett's Library

Dirk Van Hulle (Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium),Mark Nixon (University of Reading)

Samuel Beckett's Library
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
11 January 2017
Pages
328
ISBN
9781316632819

Samuel Beckett’s Library

Dirk Van Hulle (Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium),Mark Nixon (University of Reading)

Samuel Beckett’s Library critically examines the reading notes and marginalia contained in the books of Samuel Beckett’s surviving library in Paris. Previously inaccessible to scholars, this is the first study to assess the importance of the marginalia, inscriptions, and other manuscript notes in the 750 volumes of the library. Setting the library into context with other manuscript material such as drafts and notebooks, this book examines the way in which Beckett absorbed, ‘translated’, and transmitted his reading in his own work. It thus illuminates Beckett’s cultural and intellectual world, and shows the ways in which his reading often engendered writing.

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