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  The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 2, 1941-1956: Volume 2 (Letters of Samuel Beckett) (Hardback) By (author) Samuel Beckett, Edited by Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Edited by George Craig, Edited by Lois More Overbeck, Edited by Dan Gunn

  

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  Short Description for The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 2, 1941-1956: Volume 2In The Letters of Samuel Beckett readers discover the life and work of a literary giant in his own words.
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  • Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Published: 12 September 2011
  • Format: Hardback 886 pages
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  • Categories: Diaries, Letters & Journals | Anthologies (non-poetry) | Literary Studies: General | Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights | Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers | Literary Reference Works
  • ISBN 13: 9780521867948 ISBN 10: 0521867940
  • Sales rank: 26,440

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Full description for The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 2, 1941-1956: Volume 2

• 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.