Includes the novellas First Love , The Calamative , The End and The Expelled .

In Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnameable, this book seeks to highlight Samuel Beckett's trajectory in composing a narrative known for challenging the limits of representation, emphasising the precariousness of…

Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants.

This book brings together writings on Beckett from the 1950s and 1960s with critical readings from the 1980s and 1990s, inspired by a variety of literary-theoretical approaches and covering the…

A book on the experience of reading the works of Samuel Beckett that covers key topics including Beckett’s treatment of human emotion, the importance of doubt and second thoughts, his…

From Waiting for Godot to such later novels as Ill Seen, Ill Said, the work of Samuel Beckett is filled with Biblical references. Samuel Beckett and the Bible re-appraises the…

Samuel Beckett’s Poetry is the first systematic study of Beckett’s complete poetry, designed for students and scholars of 20th century poetry and literature, as well as for specialist readers of…

This is the most complete chronological account of Samuel Beckett’s life and work, with full details of how, when and where each work by him came to be written, many…