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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The latest in the series Cambridge Elements in Beckett Studies has just become available. Beckett and Derrida is the work of renowned scholar James Martell who teaches at Lyon College in Arkansas. What promises to be a welcome addition to the field this Element ‘proposes a systematic reading of [the two writers’] main points of…
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The latest issue of The Beckett Circle is now available online. This number, which will be the last in its current format, contains its usual mix of richly-illustrated reviews and essays relating to all things Beckett. Beckett’s biographer James Knowlson offers a new and fascinating insight into the life of the author’s wife Suzanne Déchevaux-Dumesnil;…
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News of an addition to the growing number of new translations of Beckett’s work arrives from Athens. The work of renowned scholar and Beckett Society member Thomas Symeonidis, the new books are produced by Greece’s oldest publishing house ΕΣΤΙΑΣ (HESTIA). The four separate volumes consist of ‘The Lost Ones’, ‘Proust’, ‘Three Dialogues’ & ‘The Image’,…
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The latest issue of the Journal of Beckett Studies is now available. Included in Volume 33 Number 2 is a fascinating short biographical essay by Michèle Tholozan-Warluzel, great niece of Suzanne Déchevaux-Dumesnil, as well as a piece by Pascale Sardin detailing her forthcoming biography of Barbara Bray. Contributions are also included from James Critchley, John…
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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.…
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Tolka, the bi-annual journal of non-fiction based in Dublin, has just published its seventh volume. Following its stated aim in publishing ‘work that is formally promiscuous and which does not always fall into neat categories [to] encourage writers to test the creative boundaries of non-fiction’ the latest issue features four creative responses to Beckett from…
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The latest issue of the Journal of Beckett Studies is a special titled Beckett and the Anthropocene. Guest edited by Céline Thobois-Gupta, Amanda Dennis, Douglas Atkinson, and Nicholas Johnson, this volume contains contributions from Laura Salisbury, Einat Adar, Michał Kisiel, Lucas Margarit, Michiko Tsushima, Anna McMullan, Jonathan McAllister, Li Yanshi and Muhammad Saeed Nasir. As…
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The latest in the Cambridge Elements in Beckett Studies series has just been released. As outlined in the book’s abstract, Beckett and Cioran, by Steven Matthews, discusses the association between Beckett, and the Romanian-born philosopher, E. M. Cioran. It draws upon the known biographical detail, but, more substantially, upon the terms of Beckett’s engagement with…
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From Buenos Aires comes news of the latest issue of Beckettiana, the online Spanish language magazine devoted entirely to Beckett studies. This issue, number 20, is co-edited by Lucas Margarit, María Inés Castagnino and Marcelo Lara and features articles by Bruno Clément and S.E. Gontarski, as well as a number of contributions drawn from the…
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