Samuel Beckett's Library
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Reprint, 1/11/2017
EAN 9781316632819, ISBN10: 1316632814
Paperback, 328 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
Language: English
Samuel Beckett's Library critically examines the reading notes and marginalia contained in the books of Samuel Beckett's surviving library in Paris. Previously inaccessible to scholars, this is the first study to assess the importance of the marginalia, inscriptions, and other manuscript notes in the 750 volumes of the library. Setting the library into context with other manuscript material such as drafts and notebooks, this book examines the way in which Beckett absorbed, 'translated', and transmitted his reading in his own work. It thus illuminates Beckett's cultural and intellectual world, and shows the ways in which his reading often engendered writing.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Reading traces
Beckett as a reader
2. Literature in English
3. Literature in French
4. Literature in German
5. Literature in Italian
6. Classics and other literatures
7. Philosophy
8. Religion
9. Dictionaries
10. Science
11. Music and art
Concluding marginalia
Notes
Bibliography
Appendix
catalogue of books in Beckett's library.