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The making of Samuel Beckett's Fin de partie/Endgame / Dirk Van Hulle, Shane Weller.
Van Pelt Library PQ2603.E378 F5846 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hulle, Dirk van, author.
- Weller, Shane, author.
- Series:
- Beckett Digital Manuscript Project ; v. 07.
- Bloomsbury literary studies series
- Beckett digital manuscript project ; Volume 07
- Literary studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989. Fin de partie.
- Beckett, Samuel.
- Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989. Fin de partie--English.
- Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989--Criticism, Textual.
- Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989--Criticism and interpretation.
- Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989--Manuscripts.
- Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989--Technique.
- Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989.
- Technique.
- Manuscripts.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Criticism, Textual.
- Physical Description:
- 371 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Antwerp : UPA University Press Antwerp ; London : Bloomsbury, [2018]
- Summary:
- "This volume of the BDMP analyses the genesis of Fin de partie / Endgame. Described by Samuel Beckett as more 'inhuman' than Waiting for Godot and as possessing an ability to 'claw', it was his favourite among all his plays and yet also a work the genesis of which was particularly arduous. It took Beckett many years to complete the French version, and about the translation process he complained in 1957: 'what a losing battle it is always'. This book explores that genesis through an analysis of all the surviving manuscripts and typescripts, retracing Beckett's difficulty to begin, to continue and, eventually, to end the play. It also brings to light some hidden treasures, such as the dramatic fragment 'Louis & Blanc' and the Lord Chamberlain's copy of the English translation, in which the censor's pen excises a number of key passages, including the celebrated reference to God: 'The bastard! He doesn't exist!"--Back cover.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Beckett and the sense of an ending
- Documents. Autograph and manuscripts and typescripts ; Editions ; Broadcasting scripts ; Playscripts, annotated copies and production notes ; Genetic map
- Genesis of Fin de partie. Before Fin de partie ; Towards Fin de partie
- Genesis of Endgame. Translating Fin de partie ; Patterns of revision ; Post-publication revisions
- Conclusion
- Works cited
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-364) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1472527488
- 9781472527486
- 9789057187018
- 9057187019
- OCLC:
- 1006803897
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