The Thessaloniki-based publishing house Oblik Editions have released the third in their series of Beckett translations. Ό,τι ανεβαίνει, κατεβαίνει (More Pricks than Kicks) is once again translated, and features a comprehensive introducion by the multi-talented Anastasia Deligianni. Like the previous volumes in the series, Greek versions of Eleutheria and Echo’s Bones, Ό,τι ανεβαίνει, κατεβαίνει is…
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An announcement reaches us from Cambridge University Press of a significant new work of scholarship by Ulrika Maude of the University of Bristol. Titled Samuel Beckett and Medicine, the new work offers ‘the first sustained analysis of the Beckett’s abiding interest in medicine and medical discourses, advancing insights into the representation of illness, neurodiversity, disability,…
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A new publication from S.E. Gontarski has been announced by Edinburgh University Press in their Other Becketts series. Titled Beckett’s Co-authors the work, we are told, ‘takes a fresh look at Samuel Beckett and the business of authorship, especially his involvement in the complicated machinery of commercial theatre. Focusing particularly on Beckett’s first professionally produced play, Waiting…
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A new volume has just been launched by the Methuen Drama imprint at Bloomsbury. Co-edited by Trish McTighe, Céline Thobois-Gupta and Nicholas E. Johnson, Samuel Beckett and Ecology is described as ‘the first full-length book to investigate Samuel Beckett’s work through contemporary ecological thinking, offering a wide range of artistic and scholarly responses to the…
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A new publication from the Italian imprint Accademia University Press examines the impact of Beckett’s work in the area of digital theatre. Titled Rimediazioni: L’eredità beckettiana nel teatro digitale (1995-2009) (Remediations: Beckett’s Legacy in Digital Theatre (1995-2009)), the volume aims to ‘examine Samuel Beckett’s “ultramedial” legacy within the techno-theatrical landscape of the 1990s and early…
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The latest issue of the Journal of Beckett Studies, vol. 34 no. 1 (April 2025) is now available to download from Edinburgh University Press. Co-edited by Conor Carville and Pim Verhulst, this is a special issue titled ‘Beckett and Aesthetic Form’ comprising of a range of essays which examine ‘the continuing influence that Beckett still…
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Two new translations of Beckett works have just been announced by Ediciones Godot in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Belacqua, a version of More Pricks than Kicks, and Los huesos de Eco [Echo’s Bones) are the work of Matías Battistón who is also responsible for the recent translation of the trilogy which was published by the same…
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A new volume of collected essays dedicated to the uses of humour in Beckett’s work has just been released by Publicacions Universitat de València. Titled Samuel Beckett y el Humor the collection is edited by Society vice-president and noted Beckett scholar and translator, José Francisco Fernández of the University of Almería. Challenging the stereotypical image…
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The latest publication in the series Cambridge Elements has just been announced. Authored by Andre Furlani and titled Pilgrim’s Gress: The Beckett Walk, this volume examines the central role of walking within Beckett’s oeuvre. Furlani argues that ‘the walk begins as a motif, becomes a rhythm, expands into a compositional principle, and culminates in an…
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The eagerly awaited biography of Barbara Bray has just been released by publishers Routledge. Titled Barbara Bray, A Woman of Letters: Translator, Radio Producer, Scriptwriter, Critic, and Theatre Director it is the work of renowned Beckett scholar Pascale Sardin, Professor of English Literature and Translation Studies at Bordeaux Montaigne University in France. Barbara Bray (1924-2010)…
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