Beckett Samuel - Beckett remembering, remembering Beckett: a centenary celebration

Copyright 2006, 2011 by James and Elizabeth Knowlson

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ISBN: 978-1-61145-199-3

Our first and most important debt in this volume published for the centenary of Samuel Becketts birth in 1906 is to Beckett himself for the many personal interviews which he granted to James Knowlson in 1989 and which are collected here for the first time. Beckett imposed no restrictions on the use of any of this material and the interviews are collected and printed by permission of the Samuel Beckett Estate, which owns the copyright to Becketts words.

The book could not have been realized, however, without the ready consent and full, enthusiastic cooperation of the many interviewees or their heirs and without the input of Becketts friends, some of whom have written pieces especially for it.

We thank most warmly all the contributors and their heirs, who are listed below.

Certain photographers waived their professional rights and kindly provided a photograph as their gift to this volume in memory of Beckett and we thank them for their generosity: Beppe Arvidsson; John Haynes; Sandra Lousada; Ltfi Ozkk; Albert Maysles; Wolfgang Suschitzy; the William MacQuitty Estate. We also wish to acknowledge the kindness of those who have provided photographs, some of which were previously unknown, to add to the more familiar ones of Beckett and his family.

A few very short extracts are reprinted from interviews with or essays by Peter Brook; Emil Cioran; Eugne Ionesco; B. S. Johnson; Jay Levy; John Montague; Edna OBrien; Robert Pinget; Tom Stoppard. All references to the books in which these extracts originally appeared are fully listed in the chapter entitled In brief.

Finally, we should make clear here exactly what is being published in the appendix on Beckett on Racine. This consists of Mrs. Grace Wests (ne McKinley) student notes on two of Samuel Becketts lectures to her class. These are, of course, her own words, as can be seen by contrasting her version of the lectures with those by Rachel Burrows (ne Dobbin) and Leslie Daiken, which are held in Trinity College, Dublin and the University of Reading archives respectively. As such they do not constitute a new Beckett text and should be approached with some degree of caution. But the notes are clear and coherent and offer a fascinating insight into the early encounter of one writer of genius with a dramatist whom he much admired.

Campbell College Archive, Belfast; Dartmouth College Library, Hanover, New Hampshire; The Deutsches Theatermuseum, Munich; Getty Images; the Historisches Archiv, Stuttgart; The Heinz Koster Archiv; The Board of Trinity College, Dublin and the Alumni Office there; The Beckett International Foundation, the University of Reading; Journal of Beckett Studies; the Library of Syracuse University; Ullstein Bild; the Nobel Foundation; University College, London Library; the McFarlin Library of the University of Tulsa; The Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

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