The “Samuel Beckett” Series in La Revue des Lettres modernes, (Lettres modernes–Minard, Paris) has just published two new volumes, devoted to Comment c’est / How It Is.
‘Comment c’est’/’How It Is’: ‘‘ce monde si peu possible’ is a collection of essays in French relating to the novel featuring contributions a range of contemporary scholars edited by Llewellyn Brown. The volume can be ordered online here.
Samuel Beckett ‘Comment c’est’/’How It Is’: Annotations by Chris Ackerley, Llewellyn Brown and Anthony Cordingley, is a comprehensive annotation companion to the novels which is presented in both French and English. It can be ordered online here.
How It Is, one of Beckett’s major bilingual prose works, is an enigmatic and often obscure text, which both suggests and resists an overall vision of its construction and meaning. This bilingual verse by verse commentary reveals the intricacies of the intertextual references and the poetic construction, while bringing to light the coherence of the narrative.
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