Samuel Beckett Comment C'est How It Is And / et L'image: A Critical-Genetic Edition Une Edition Critic-Genetique

Coming after Charles Krance’s edition of Company and of Ill Seen Ill Said (Beckett 1996), this is the third volume of Samuel Beckett’s Complete Bilingual Works . Like those volumes, this one presents twin English and French texts and a complete record of the genesis of each one. Along with Comment c'est and How it is , O'Reilly has included L'Image and an excerpt from Comment c'est which was published later in a separate volume. The volume also includes an introduction that presents the pre-original documents to the cited works and the protocol with which the editor used to transcribe them. This volume will serve primarily as a research tool in two areas: comparative study of Beckett’s English and French texts, along with the study of the genesis of those texts.