![]() ![]() The way towards a deeper understanding of his work has to be through minute analysis of his self-translations, both literal and, in this case, metaphorical. The volume consists of a reconstructed text, based on the changes Beckett made for his 1975 Schiller-Theatre production and his 1984 San Quentin Drama Workshop production, plus a facsimile and transcription / translation of notebooks he kept while working on the German production, beautifully produced and with copious notes by the editors.įour decades of general writing on Beckett have only shown that his work is strangely impervious to criticism. ![]() ![]() Faber is planning volumes on Endgame, Krapp and the shorter plays, but has kicked off with the play that made Beckett famous, Waiting for Godot. Even his production notes for the plays he himself directed are being eagerly published. ONCE upon a time he could not get his plays performed or his novels published today Samuel Beckett's every doodle is jealously preserved in archives and by those individuals fortunate enough to own them. ![]()
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