The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'Molloy'

Description

Originally published in French in 1951 and translated into English by the author himself four years later, Molloy is the first novel of Samuel Beckett's Trilogy, continued in Malone Dies and The Unnamable. The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'Molloy' is a comprehensive reference guide to the history of the text. The book includes: A complete descriptive catalogue of available relevant manuscripts, including French and English texts, alternative drafts and notebook pages A critical reconstruction of the history of the history of the text, from its genesis through the process of composition to its full publication history A detailed guide to exploring the manuscripts online at the Beckett Digital Manuscripts Project at www.beckettarchive.org 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.

Edouard Magessa O'Reilly is Professor in the Department of French and Spanish at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. Dirk Van Hulle is Associate Professor of English Literature at the Centre for Manuscript Genetics, University of Antwerp, Belgium. He is President of the European Society for Textual Scholarship and his previous books include Textual Awareness (2004). Pim Verhulst is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Manuscript Genetics, University of Antwerp, Belgium.

[This book] is that rara avis, doing precisely what it proposes to do, and so well that further comment seems superfluous ... The analysis is deft, incisive and persuasive, and typifies much of the edition. * James Joyce Literary Supplement * In The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'Molloy', Dirk Van Hulle, Edouard Magessa O'Reilly, and Pim Verhulst, astutely compare the novel's undeliberated composition ... [an] indispensable contribution. * The European Legacy * A fascinating study of manuscript and textual history. * The Year's Work in English Studies *