{"product_id":"the-making-of-samuel-becketts-dirk-van-hulle-9789004761001","title":"The Making of Samuel Beckett's Murphy","description":"The work of Samuel Beckett, winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature, is intriguing but can also be challenging. This book series aims to offer a way into this complex oeuvre by analysing the genesis of Beckett's bilingual (English\/French) works according to a basic principle: knowing how something was made can help us understand how and why it works.\u003cbr\u003e Beckett donated many of his manuscripts to university archives. His papers are dispersed over more than a dozen public archives and several private collections on both sides of the Atlantic. The series brings this material together. Every volume focuses on a work (or in the case of shorter texts: a cluster of works) and discusses the making-of.\u003cbr\u003e This volume investigates the genesis of Beckett's first published novel, \u003ci\u003eMurphy\u003c\/i\u003e (1938). It describes and analyses the six notebooks containing the novel's draft, the typescript, the short story 'Lightning Calculation' as well as the outline and the notes (including the 'Whoroscope' Notebook) which Beckett used during the writing process. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dirk Van Hulle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9004761004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789004761001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Brill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/21\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 306\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 6.10w x 0.75d","brand":"Dirk Van Hulle","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48852703543551,"sku":"9789004761001","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-making-of-samuel-becketts-dirk-van-hulle-9789004761001","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}