Samuel Beckett's Disease
"Full house every night", the author of En Attendant Godot noted in 1953, in a letter to his lover; "it's a disease."
I'm quoting here from the second volume of The Letters of Samuel Beckett, which is reviewed in this week's TLS by Alan Jenkins, the deputy editor. It tells an extraordinary story, and, for those who'd like to read more about the transformation of Beckett's reputation, his thinking and life ("In the place where I have always found myself, where I will always find myself, turning round and round, falling over, getting up again, it is no longer wholly dark nor wholly silent"), the review will be online, all being well, later today.
But there's more . . . . To quote from David Horspool's introductory note to this week's TLS:...more
Samuel Beckett (Letters Vol. 1)