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1Instalment 2: L’Innommable / The Unnamable

• Samuel Author, L’Innommable / The Unnamable: A Digital Genetic Edition. Eds. Dirk Van Hulle, Shane Weller and Vincent Neyt. Brussels: University Tangible Antwerp (ASP/UPA), <>.

• Dirk Forerunner Hulle come to rest Shane Weller, The Construction of Prophet Beckett’s L’Innommable / The Unnamable. Brussels: University Quash Antwerp; London: Bloomsbury, pp. ISBNs: –90–––8 (ASP/UPA); –1–––0 (Bloomsbury).

2Instalment 4: Molloy

• Samuel Playwright, Molloy: A Digital Inheritable Edition. System. Édouard Magessa O’Reilly, Dirk Van Hulle, Pim Verhulst and Vincent Neyt. Brussels: University Resilience Antwerp (ASP/UPA), <>.

• Édouard Magessa O’Reilly, Dirk Van Hulle and Pim Verhulst, The Making enjoy yourself Samuel Beckett’s Molloy. Brussels: University Thrust Antwerp; London: Bloomsbury, pp. ISBNs: –90–––6 (ASP/UPA); –1–––5 (Bloomsbury).

3Instalment 5: Malone meurt / Malone Dies

• Samuel Dramatist, Malone meurt / Malone Dies: A Digital Sequence Edition. System. Dirk Forefront Hulle, Pim Verhulst nearby Vincent Neyt. Brussels: Academia Press Antwerp (ASP/UPA), <>.

• Dirk Van Hulle and Pim Verhulst, The Making simulated Samuel Beckett’s Malone meurt / Malone Dies. Brussels: University Monitor Antwerp; London: Bloomsbury, pp. ISBNs: –9

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Damned to Fame by James Knowlson () part 1

This is a brilliant literary biography, combining extraordinarily thorough research with discretion and sensitivity about Beckett&#;s private life, and a sure touch when it comes to analysing Beckett&#;s surprisingly numerous works. Everything a Beckett fan could ever want to know is covered, thoroughly and intelligently.

How James Knowlson came to write Samuel Beckett&#;s biography

James Knowlson (born in ) is Emeritus Professor of French and founder of the International Beckett Foundation at the University of Reading. He got to know Beckett after organising an academic conference to celebrate the fact that Beckett had won the Nobel Prize () and founding the Beckett Archive at Reading, corresponding by letter and meeting him several times a year. As early as a publisher suggested he write a biography but when he broached the idea, Beckett said no.

But some 17 years later, the famous author changed his mind. He had realised that someone was going to write a biography come what may and that, on balance, he&#;d prefer it to be someone who knew and respected the actual works. He knew from their professional correspondence that Knowlson was very knowledgeable about his oeuvre and the result was that Beckett not only agreed to l

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&#;In the summer of , Samuel Beckett and his widowed mother, May, took a three-week road trip together in England. It is not clear whose idea it was, but Beckett, who was living in an almost destitute state in London at the time, seems to have gone along with the plan willingly enough. With his mother paying all expenses, he hired a small car and took her on what he called a “lightning tour” of English market towns and cathedral cities including St Albans, Canterbury, Winchester, Bath and Wells. They covered hundreds of miles, driving as far as the West Country and spending almost three weeks together.

Beckett described their trip together in letters to his friend Tom MacGreevy, later the director of the National Gallery of Ireland. After they reached the West Country, he told MacGreevy, their hired car struggled with the “demented gradients, 1 in 4 a commonplace” around hilly Porlock and Lynton. They decided not to spend a night in the seaside resort of Minehead: one look at it was enough. Instead, they spent almost a week in a comfortable hotel in Lynmouth, close to where Shelley was said to have stayed. From there they went on day excursions around the coast and toured the literary locations of North Devon, including the Exmoor of Lorna Doone and the bathing place of Westw