A major new collection of books, documents and artefacts given to the University of Reading will provide unique new insights on the relationship between Beckett and his fellow Dubliner James Joyce. The gift of the Solange and Stephen James Joyce Collection was announced on Wednesday 2 February, the centenary of the publication in Paris of…
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International conference organized by the University of Almería, Spain, and the Samuel Beckett Society, 9-11 May 2019
Read MorePalgrave MacMillan releases a new collection of essays exploring the Nobel laureate’s relationship to modernist traditions, edited by Olga Beloborodova, Dirk Van Hulle, Pim Verhulst
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“Of all I’ve read in my life, and all that’s yet to come, what’s going to count? How much of it has changed me? How much has even marked me? How much has done both but I don’t know it yet? Readers get to make these discoveries in the privacy of their own heads. Writers must make them in public and then wear them in their back catalogues for as long as they have a readership who cares.”
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A symposium at Magdalene College, Cambridge, in association with the Cambridge Group for Irish Studies. The distinguished line-up of speakers includes many of the leading figures in Irish studies across several generations, as well as creative writers and actors. While the main focus will be on the two greatest Irish modernist writers, Joyce and Beckett, contributors will also consider other modern Irish writers and the appropriateness or otherwise of “modernism” as a category in poetry, fiction, drama and the visual arts.
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The Samuel Beckett Society 