The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 1 19291940

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The letters written by Samuel Beckett between 1929 and 1940 provide a vivid and personal view of Western Europe in the 1930s and mark the gradual emergence of Becketts unique voice and sensibility. The Cambridge University Press edition of The Letters of Samuel Beckett offers for the first time a comprehensive range of letters of one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century. Selected for their bearing on his work from over 15 000 extant letters the letters published in this four-volume edition encompass sixty years of Becketts writing life (19291989) and include letters to friends painters and musicians as well as to students publishers translators and colleagues in the world of literature and theater. For anyone interested in twentieth-century literature and theater this edition is essential reading offering not only a record of Becketts achievements but a powerful literary experience in itself.