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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。第2巻は、通信の制約も厳しかった戦時を経て1945年から激増する書簡が文学的にも多産な時期の貴重な記録。フランス語で執筆し自ら英訳した傑作群の中に『ゴドーを待ちながら』（En attendant Godot）も含む。無名の一作家から国際的な著名人に変貌した自らの状況への言及も見られる。刊行後、タイムズ文芸付録、ニューヨーク・タイムズ日曜書評版がこぞって長文の書評を掲載。
Full Description
This second volume of The Letters of Samuel Beckett opens with the war years, when it was often impossible or too dangerous to correspond. The surge of letters beginning in 1945, and their variety, are matched by the outpouring and the range of Beckett's published work. Primarily written in French and later translated by the author, the work includes stories, a series of novels (Molloy, Malone meurt and L'Innommable), essays and plays - most notably En attendant Godot. The letters chronicle a passionately committed but little known writer evolving into a figure of international reputation, and his response to such fame. The volume provides detailed introductions which discuss Beckett's situation during the war and his crucial move into the French language, as well as translations of the letters, explanatory notes, year-by-year chronologies, profiles of correspondents and other contextual information.
Contents
General introduction; French translator's preface George Craig; Editorial procedures; Acknowledgments; Permissions; Abbreviations; Introduction to Volume 2 Dan Gunn; Letters, 1941-1956; Profiles; Bibliography; Index.
