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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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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