The making of Samuel Beckett's Malone meurt/Malone dies / Dirk Van Hulle, Pim Verhulst.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hulle, Dirk van, author.

Verhulst, Pim, author.

Series:

Beckett Digital Manuscript Project ; v. 05.

Beckett Digital Manuscript Project ; volume 05

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989. Malone meurt.

Beckett, Samuel.

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989. Malone meurt--English.

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989--Criticism and interpretation.

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

321 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Edition:

Bloomsbury edition.

Other Title:

Making of Samuel Beckett's Malone dies

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury, [2017]

Language Note:

Primarily in English, with passages of Beckett's original French.

Summary:

This volume analyses the genesis of Beckett's novel Malone meurt / Malone Dies. Written in French in 1947-1948, and translate into English by the author in 1954-1956, it is the second part of the so-called 'Trilogy', preceded by Molloy and followed by L'Innommable / The Unnamable. Because Malone's account approximates a diary, this book starts from H. Porter Abbott's notion of 'diary fiction' to examine the surviving manuscripts, typescripts, and pre-book publication extracts. Even though the writing process of Malone meurt almost coincides with the progression of the narrative, illustrating what Louis Hay has called 'écriture à processus', Beckett made substantial change to the text, which can be interpreted as a critique of Honoré de Balzac's programmatic writing method. This analysis extends to the genesis of Malone Dies (Beckett's English translation of the novel), which alludes to Balzae's novel Louis Lambert, in order to show that self-translation is a crucial and integral part of Beckett's bilingual autographic project. This volume is part of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (BDMP), a collaboration between the Centre for Manuscript Genetics (University of Antwerp), the Beckett International Foundation (University of Reading) and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center(University of Texas at Austin), with the support of the Estate of Samuel Beckett. The BDMP (www.beckettarchive.org) digitally reunites the dispersed manuscripts of Samuel Beckett's works and facilitates their examination. The project consists of two parts: a a digital archive of Beckett's manuscripts, with facisimiles and transcriptions, organized in modules; b a series of print volumes, analyzing the genesis of Beckett's works. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Documents 34

1.1 Autograph Manuscripts 35

1.1.1 French 35

1.1.2 English 50

1.2 Typescripts 62

1.2.1 French 62

1.2.2 English 64

1.3 Pre-Book Publications 72

1.3.1 French 72

1.3.2 English 84

1.4 Editions 91

1.4.1 French (Paris) 91

1.4.2 English (US) 96

1.4.3 English (UK) 101

1.4.4 English (Paris) 107

1.5 Broadcasting Scripts 108

1.5.1 English 108

1.6 Genetic Map 118

2 Genesis of Malone meurt 120

3 Genesis of Malone Dies 258

3.1 Translating Malone meurt 259

3.2 Translation as 'Killing Dead' 270

Death and dying 273

Light and dark 280

3.3 Other Patterns of Revision 287

Style and word order 287

Literal translation 289

Idiomatic language and slang 291

Expressions and puns 293

Corrections and modifications 295

Deleted metacomments 297.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-315) and index.

ISBN:

147252344X

9781472523440

OCLC:

956751283