Samuel Beckett Collection

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Samuel Beckett Collection

1864, 1930-1990, undated

https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingaid.cfm?eadid=00140&showrequest=1

The collection is composed primarily of Beckett works, including drafts of Waiting for Godot (1952) in the original French and the English translation, All That Fall (1956), Watt (1953), and Whoroscope (1930). Also present is correspondence between Beckett and Kay Boyle, Andreas Brown, and others.

10 document boxes (4.17 linear feet), 1 galley folder (gf), 1 oversize box (osb), and 2 electronic files (362 MB)

fre, Latn

eng, Latn

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

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Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

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Samuel Barclay Beckett was born on Good Friday, April 13, 1906, in Foxrock, Ireland, near Dublin. He studied modern languages at Trinity College in Dublin and graduated in 1927. The following year, Beckett went to Paris, where he quickly became acquainted with a group of avant-garde artists, including James Joyce. There, Beckett taught English at the École Normale Superieure in Paris for two years before returning to Trinity College to teach French in 1930. He left Trinity College after one year...

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Aidan Higgins, born in County Kildare, Ireland, is an Irish novelist, influenced in his work by modernists such as James Joyce, Brian O'Nolan and Samuel Beckett. In 1955, Higgins went to London for a time, where he continued to write novels, short stories, radio plays, and documentaries. He also spent time in South Africa and Germany. His published works include "Felo De Se" (1960), "Langrishe, Go Down" (1966), "Balcony of Europe" (1972), "Images of Africa: Diary, 1956-60" (1971), "Scenes from a...