The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 3, 1957-1965 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521867955)

This third volume of The Letters of Samuel Beckett focuses on the years when Beckett is striving to find a balance between the demands put upon him by his growing international fame, and his need for the peace and silence from which new writing might emerge. This is the period in which Beckett launches into work for radio, film and, later, into television. It also marks his return to writing fiction, with his first major piece for a decade, Comment c'est (How It Is). Where hitherto he has been reticent about the writing process, now he devotes letter after letter to describing and explaining his work in progress. For the first time Beckett has a woman as his major correspondent: a relationship shown in his intense and abundant letters to Barbara Bray. The volume also provides critical introductions, chronologies, explanatory notes and profiles of Beckett's main correspondents.

Author: Samuel Beckett
ISBN-10: 0521867959
ISBN-13: 9780521867955
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/18/2014
Pages: 816
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.90lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 1.90d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/11/2014
Library Journal 10/01/2014 pg. 84
Chronicle of Higher Education 11/21/2014 pg. 16
New York Times Book Review 12/21/2014 pg. 26
New York Review of Books 04/02/2015 pg. 54
Choice 06/01/2015 pg. 1652