Beckett Digital Manuscript Project: L’Innommable / The Unnamable

New digital instalment places pioneering work of fiction under the magnifying glass

The Making of Samuel Beckett’s L’Innomable / The Unnamable (BDMP2).

The Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (www.beckettarchive.org) is pleased to announce the publication of the genetic edition of L’Innommable / The Unnamable, edited by Dirk Van Hulle and Shane Weller; technical realization: Vincent Neyt.

This new module reunites all the relevant manuscripts held at three different holding libraries: the Harry Ransom Center (Austin, Texas), the University of Reading and Washington University, St Louis. The genetic edition offers:

• 950 digital facsimiles and their transcriptions;
• all pre-publication versions of the text: the French manuscript, a partial manuscript in French, the manuscript of the English version and two English typescripts;
• facsimiles of 350 doodles with description;
• a search engine;
• digital collation tools to compare the different versions at sentence level.

The accompanying print volume, The Making of Samuel Beckett’s L’Innommable / The Unnamable, will appear shortly, containing a bibliographic description of the manuscripts and an analysis of the work’s genesis.

Forthcoming modules of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project:

• Krapp’s Last Tape / La dernière bande
• Beckett’s Radio Plays
• Molloy Malone meurt / Malone Dies
• Watt

For more information on the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (BDMP), see www.beckettarchive.org.

To subscribe to the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project, see the ASP/University Press Antwerp website for: Individual access / Institutional access.