Samuel Beckett Compagnie

Samuel Beckett & Compagnie est l’histoire d’une quête infinie à la recherche de l’autre. L’autre tel qu’il échoit dans les textes, surgit dans les figures théâtrales, se faufile parmi les ombres. Cette Compagnie sera mal vue et mal dite avant de s’évader « Cap au Pire ». La Compagnie, c’est aussi Marcel Proust, Claude Simon, Robert Pinget, Christian Oster, Gilles Deleuze.

Company was first composed in English over two years, with Beckett breaking a 20-year-long pattern of composing primarily in French to craft this meticulously structured 59-paragraph masterpiece of his late prose. Its French companion, Compagnie, was translated in only two weeks. The genetic critical analysis of the manuscripts of Company/Compagnie takes this schema-dependent compositional method as its core focus. It forwards a new hypothesis regarding the genetic map of both works, and considers the relationship between this uniquely entwined 'original' and 'translation.' This volume is part of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (BDMP), a collaboration between the Centre for Manuscript Genetics (University of Antwerp, Belgium), the Beckett International Foundation (University of Reading, UK) and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre (University of Texas at Austin, USA), with the support of the Estate of Samuel Beckett.

Begins a series of bilingual variorum editions of Irish writer Beckett's (1906-89) work. He wrote in both English and French, and the two versions, with their textual variants, are presented on facing pages to allow scholars to compare them and trace the evolution of each. Company was published in 1980, and Monologue in 1979-82. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Plays.

Ends and Odds brings together nine short dramatic works by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Waiting for Godot.

Samuel Beckett has become the standard work on the enigmatic, controversial, and Nobel Prize-winning creator of such contributions to 20th-century theater as Waiting for Godot and Endgame. 16 pages of black-and-white photographs.