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基本説明
門外不出だったベケットの1万5千通の書簡がケンブリッジ大学出版局より全4巻にて刊行中。各巻とも、詳細な序文と、年譜、注釈、文通相手の略歴、書簡の所蔵情報に加えて、索引を収録。文学研究者として将来を嘱望されたベケットは、ジョイス『フィネガンズ・ウェイク』仏訳を手伝う。ジョイスとの出会いは、二十世紀最大の文学的事件とされる。1938年、最初の長編『マーフィー』を出版。青年ベケットによる、1930年代西欧文化の独自の観察が注目される。
Full Description
The letters written by Samuel Beckett between 1929 and 1940 provide a vivid and personal view of Western Europe in the 1930s, and mark the gradual emergence of Beckett's unique voice and sensibility. The Cambridge University Press edition of The Letters of Samuel Beckett offers for the first time a comprehensive range of letters of one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century. Selected for their bearing on his work from over 15,000 extant letters, the letters published in this four-volume edition encompass sixty years of Beckett's writing life (1929-1989), and include letters to friends, painters and musicians, as well as to students, publishers, translators, and colleagues in the world of literature and theatre. For anyone interested in twentieth-century literature and theatre this edition is essential reading, offering not only a record of Beckett's achievements but a powerful literary experience in itself.
Contents
General introduction; French translator's preface George Craig; German translator's preface Viola Westbrook; Editorial procedures; Acknowledgments; Permissions; Abbreviations; Introduction to Volume 1; Letters, 1929-1940; Appendix; Profiles; Bibliography; Index.
