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The latest BDMP volume discusses Samuel Beckett's late prose text 'Company/Compagnie'. 'Company' was first composed in English between the years 1977 and 1979, with Beckett breaking a 20-year-long pattern of composing primarily in French to craft this meticulously structured 59-paragraph masterpiece of his late prose. Its French companion, 'Compagnie', was translated in only two weeks, in August 1979, yet the French came into print in early 1980, some months before the English 'original'. Both texts emerged during a period of intense theatre work for Beckett, and the composition of 'Company' in particular appeared to offer Beckett a degree of respite from his theatre commitments,with the tex...
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The first study to assess the importance of the marginalia, inscriptions, and other manuscript notes in the 750 volumes of Samuel Beckett's personal library.
In The Ideal Real, Paul Davies argues that Beckett saw this potential self emerging in the world of imagination and symbol, especially in this age where language alone has come to be seen as the vehicle of education and the determiner of identity.
This collection of five previously out-of-print titles examines Samuel Beckett’s works and their impact on the theatre, and on people who came into creative contact with his ideas. His plays are assessed, as are his works for film and television. A titan of original thinking, these books by leading Beckett scholars analyse how his creative vision was expressed and how it revolutionised not just the world of theatre but also of the wider world of the arts.
In honour of Samuel Beckett's eightieth birthday.