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One of the most performed plays in the world, Waiting for Godot was the work that launched Samuel Beckett to international fame – a status that would grapple with for the rest of his life.
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Robert Fulford on reading Beckett’s letters in today’s National Post!
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Martin Rubin reviews The Letters of Samuel Beckett in the Washington Times.
Read MoreThanks to Canadian Rep Pam Robinson for pointing us to a very cool piece on a Globe and Mail blog: Samuel Beckett, Yeats, and the occult: A digression. Blogger Linda Leith points out that in Beckett’s disassociation with Ireland, he distanced himself from other Irish writers and their interest in the occult and mysticism. A […]
Read MoreOn the 17th and 18th, the Globe and Mail did a double-whammy review of The Letters of Samuel Beckett! April 17: Inside the young writer’s laboratory >> April 18: Waiting for the Post >>
Read MoreToday, April 13, is Sam Beckett’s birthday (1906). What better gift to have than J. M. Coetzee’s New York Review of Books review of Letters?
Read MoreMichael Dirda’s review of The Letters of Samuel Beckett takes notice of many of the things that we’re most proud of in our publishing program; notably our thoroughness. Not sure what Beckett is talking about in his famously obtuse ways? The editors have it sorted out, no worries. After all, this is a Cambridge book! […]
Read MoreWriting for Harper’s Magazine, critic Wyatt Mason examines Samuel Beckett in translation, musing over several bits, including one of Beckett’s letters, translated from German and featured in The Letters of Samuel Beckett. This letter seems to catch the eye of every reviewer that reads it, and it’s easy to see why. “It is indeed getting […]
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