Samuel Beckett

(1906-1989)

Biography
Samuel Beckett was born on April 13, 1906, in Foxrock -a suburb of Dublin- in County
Dublin, Ireland. Like his fellow Irish writers George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, and
William Butler Yeats, he came from a Protestant, Anglo-Irish background. At the age of 14
he went to the Portora Royal School, in what became Northern Ireland, a school that catered
to the Anglo-Irish middle classes. From 1923 to 1927, he studied Romance languages at
Trinity College, Dublin, where he received his bachelor’s degree.

After a brief spell of teaching in Belfast, he became a reader in English at the École Normale
Supérieure in Paris in 1928. There he met the self-exiled Irish writer James Joyce, the author
of the controversial and seminally modern novel Ulysses, and joined his circle. Contrary to
often-repeated reports, however, he never served as Joyce’s secretary.

He returned to Ireland in 1930 to take up a post as lecturer in French at Trinity College, but
after only four terms he resigned, in December 1931, and embarked upon a period of
restless travel in London, France, Germany, and Italy. In 1937 Beckett decided to settle in
Paris.

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This period of Beckett’s life is vividly depicted in letters he wrote between 1929 and 1940.
Beckett’s relatively few prewar publications included two essays on Joyce and the French
novelist Marcel Proust. The volume More Pricks Than Kicks (1934) contained 10 stories
describing episodes in the life of a Dublin intellectual, Belacqua Shuah, and the novel
Murphy (1938) concerns an Irishman in London who escapes from a girl he is about to
marry to a life of contemplation as a male nurse in a mental institution. His two slim
volumes of poetry were Whoroscope (1930), a poem on the French philosopher René
Descartes, and the collection Echo’s Bones (1935). A number of short stories and poems were
scattered in various periodicals. He wrote the novel Dream of Fair to Middling Women in the
mid-1930s, but it remained incomplete and was not published until 1992.

As a citizen of a country that was neutral in World War II, Beckett was able to remain in
Paris even after the occupation of Paris by the Germans, but he joined an underground
resistance group in 1941. When, in 1942, he received news that members of his group had
been arrested by the Gestapo, he immediately went into hiding and eventually moved to the
unoccupied zone of France. Until the liberation of the country, he supported himself as an
agricultural laborer. During his years in hiding, Beckett completed another novel, Watt,
which was not published until 1953.

In 1945 he returned to Ireland but volunteered for the Irish Red Cross and went back to
France as an interpreter in a military hospital in Saint-Lô, Normandy. In the winter of 1945,
he finally returned to Paris and was awarded the Croix de Guerre for his resistance work.

There followed a period of intense creativity, the most concentratedly fruitful period of
Beckett’s life. Between 1946 and 1949, Beckett produced a number of stories, the major prose
narratives Molloy (1951), Malone meurt (1951; Malone Dies), and L’Innommable (1953; The
Unnamable), and two plays, the unpublished three-act Eleutheria and Waiting for Godot. It
was not until 1951, however, that these works saw the light of day.

After many refusals, Suzanne Deschevaux-Dumesnil (later Mme Beckett), Beckett’s lifelong
companion, finally succeeded in finding a publisher for Molloy. When this book not only
proved a modest commercial success but also was received with enthusiasm by the French
critics, the same publisher brought out the two other novels and Waiting for Godot. It was
with the amazing success of Waiting for Godot at the small Théâtre de Babylone in Paris, in
January 1953, that Beckett’s rise to world fame began. Beckett continued writing, but more
slowly than in the immediate postwar years. Plays for the stage and radio and a number of
prose works occupied much of his attention.

Beckett continued to live in Paris, but most of his writing was done in a small house
secluded in the Marne valley, a short drive from Paris. His total dedication to his art
extended to his complete avoidance of all personal publicity, of appearances on radio or
television, and of all journalistic interviews. When, in 1969, he received the Nobel Prize for
Literature, he accepted the award but declined the trip to Stockholm to avoid the public
speech at the ceremonies. Samuel Beckett died on December 22, 1989 in Paris.2

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Selected Materials Available at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Works by the Author

Plays:

Beckett, Samuel. Comédie et actes divers. Paris: Les éditions de Minuit, [1990].
BA Call Number: 842.914 B3965c (B2 -- Special Collections -- Closed Stacks)

Beckett, Samuel. En attendant Godot. [Paris]: Éditions de Minuit, [1993].

BA Call Number: 842.914 B3965en (B2 -- Special Collections -- Closed Stacks)

Beckett, Samuel. En attendant Godot: Pièce en deux actes. Edited by Colin Duckworth.
Foreword by Harold Hobson. London: Harrap, 1970.
BA Call Number: 842.914 B3965e (F1 -- Closed Stacks -- Nobel Collection -- 1969)

Beckett, Samuel. Endgame: A Play in One Act; Followed by Act Without Words:
A Mime for One Player. Faber Paper Covered Editions. London: Faber and Faber, 1972.
BA Call Number: 822.9 Bec E (Shadi Abdel Salam Collection -- B1)

Beckett, Samuel. Jé-a bout: Théâtre. Translated by Monchoachi. [Paris]: New Legend,
2002.
BA Call Number: BnF 394240 (B4 -- Closed Stacks -- BnF Collection)

Beckett, Samuel. Oh les beaux jours; suivi de Pas moi. Paris: Éditions de Minuit, [1992].
BA Call Number: 842.914 B3965o (B2 -- Special Collections -- Closed Stacks)

Beckett, Samuel. Play, and Two Short Pieces for Radio. London: Faber and Faber, 1968.
BA Call Number: 842.914 B3965p (F1 -- Closed Stacks -- Nobel Collection -- 1969)

Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts. London: Faber and
Faber, 1955.
BA Call Number: 842.914 B3965w 1955 (E)

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Fiction:

Beckett, Samuel. All Strange Away. Beckett Short 3. London: John Calder, 1999.
BA Call Number: 843.914 B3965a (F1 -- Closed Stacks -- Nobel Collection -- 1969)

Beckett, Samuel. Company. Picador Fiction. London: Picador, 1982.

BA Call Number: 843.914 B3965c (F1 -- Closed Stacks -- Nobel Collection -- 1969)

Beckett, Samuel. The Expelled: And Other Novellas. Penguin Twentieth-Century

Classics. London: Penguin, 1980.
BA Call Number: 843.914 B3965e (F1 -- Closed Stacks -- Nobel Collection -- 1969)

Beckett, Samuel. First Love. Beckett Short 8. London: John Calder, 1999.
BA Call Number: 843.914 B3965f (F1 -- Closed Stacks -- Nobel Collection -- 1969)

Beckett, Samuel. First Love and Other Novellas. Edited by Gerry Dukes. Penguin
Modern Classics. London: Penguin, 2000.
BA Call Number: 843.914 B3965fi (F1 -- Closed Stacks -- Nobel Collection -- 1969)

Beckett, Samuel. How It Is. London: Calder, 1996.

BA Call Number: 843.914 B3965h (F1 -- Closed Stacks -- Nobel Collection -- 1969)

Beckett, Samuel. Ill Seen Ill Said. London: Calder, 1981.

BA Call Number: 843.914 B3965il (F1 -- Closed Stacks -- Nobel Collection -- 1969)

Beckett, Samuel. L’innommable. Paris: Éditions de Minuit, 1969.

BA Call Number: 843.914 B3965i (F1 -- Closed Stacks -- Nobel Collection -- 1969)

Beckett, Samuel. Malone Dies: A Novel. Penguin Modern Classics. Harmondsworth:

Penguin, 1970.
BA Call Number: 843.914 B3965ma (F1 -- Closed Stacks -- Nobel Collection -- 1969)

Beckett, Samuel. Malone meurt. Paris ditions de Minuit, 2004.

BA Call Number: BnF 289056 (B4 -- Closed Stacks -- BnF Collection)

Beckett, Samuel. Mercier et Camier. Double 38. Paris: Éditions de Minuit, 2006.
BA Call Number: BnF 387396 (B4 -- Closed Stacks -- BnF Collection)

Beckett, Samuel. “Molloy“. In Molloy, by Samuel Beckett; suivi de Molloy: Un

évènement littéraire, une œuvre, Jean-Jacques Mayoux. Double 7. Paris: Éditions de
Minuit, 1988.
BA Call Number: 843.914 B3965m (F1 -- Closed Stacks -- Nobel Collection -- 1969)

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Beckett, Samuel. Murphy. A Calderbook CB 331. London: Calder, 1938.
BA Call Number: 843.914 B3965mu (F1 -- Closed Stacks -- Nobel Collection -- 1969)

Beckett, Samuel. The Old Tune. Beckett Short 7. London: John Calder, 1999.
BA Call Number: 843.914 B3965o (F1 -- Closed Stacks -- Nobel Collection -- 1969)

Beckett, Samuel. Six Residua. Beckett Short 5. London: John Calder, 1999.
BA Call Number: 843.914 B3965s (F1 -- Closed Stacks -- Nobel Collection -- 1969)

Beckett, Samuel. Stirrings Still. Beckett Short 11. London: John Calder, 1999.
BA Call Number: 843.914 B3965st (F1 -- Closed Stacks -- Nobel Collection -- 1969)

Beckett, Samuel. Three Novellas. Beckett Short 10. London: John Calder, 1999.
BA Call Number: 843.914 B3965th (F1 -- Closed Stacks -- Nobel Collection -- 1969)

Beckett, Samuel. Worstward Ho. Beckett Short 4. London: John Calder, 1999.
BA Call Number: 843.914 B3965w (F1 -- Closed Stacks -- Nobel Collection -- 1969)

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Poetry:

Beckett, Samuel. Les os d’écho et autres précipités. Translated by Édith Fournier. Paris:
Minuit, 2002.
BA Call Number: BnF 399542 (B4 -- Closed Stacks -- BnF Collection)

Beckett, Samuel. Selected Poems. Beckett Short 12. London: John Calder, 1999.
BA Call Number: 841.914 B3965 (F1 -- Closed Stacks -- Nobel Collection -- 1969)

Miscellaneous Works :

Beckett, Samuel. As the Story Was Told. Beckett Short 9. London: John Calder, 1999.
BA Call Number: 848.91409 B3965a (F1 -- Closed Stacks -- Nobel Collection -- 1969)

Beckett, Samuel. Dramatic Works and Dialogues. Beckett Short 2. London: John Calder,
1999.
BA Call Number: 809 B3965 (F1 -- Closed Stacks -- Nobel Collection -- 1969)

Beckett, Samuel. For to End Yet Again. Beckett Short 6. London: John Calder, 1999.
BA Call Number: 848.91409 B3965f (F1 -- Closed Stacks -- Nobel Collection -- 1969)

Beckett, Samuel. Text for Nothing. Beckett Short 1. London: John Calder, 1999.
BA Call Number: 848.91409 B3965 (F1 -- Closed Stacks -- Nobel Collection -- 1969)

Beckett, Samuel. Trois dialogues. Translated by Samuel Beckett and Édith Fournier.
Paris ditions de Minuit, 1998.
BA Call Number: BnF 303127 (B4 -- Closed Stacks -- BnF Collection)

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Works about the Author
Print Books:

Abbott, H. Porter. Beckett Writing Beckett: The Author in the Autograph. New York:
Cornell University Press, 1996.
BA Call Number: 848.91409 Abb B (E)

Angel-Perez, Elisabeth. “Samuel Beckett et la mise en place d’une dramaturgie de

l’après-Ausschwitz”. Chap. 1 in Voyages au bout du possible: Les théâtres du
traumatisme de Samuel Beckett à Sarah Kane. Angle ouvert 2. [Paris]: Klincksieck, 2006.
BA Call Number: BnF 407283 (B4 -- Closed Stacks -- BnF Collection)

Anzieu, Didier. Beckett. Collection Folio. Essais 336. [Paris]: Gallimard, 1999.
BA Call Number: BnF 374780 (B4 -- Closed Stacks -- BnF Collection)

Badiou, Alain. Beckett: L’increvable désir. Pluriel. Lettres. Paris: Hachette, [2006].
BA Call Number: BnF 392247 (B4 -- Closed Stacks -- BnF Collection)

Banier, François-Marie, et al. Samuel Beckett. Portraits d’auteurs. Paris: Marval, 1997.
BA Call Number: BnF 377025 (B4 -- Closed Stacks -- BnF Collection)

Begam, Richard. Samuel Beckett and the End of Modernity. Stanford, CA: Stanford
University Press, 1996.
BA Call Number: 848.91409 Beg S (E)

Bishop, Tom, and Raymond Federman. Samuel Beckett. L' Herne 31. Paris ditions de
l’Herne, 1997.
BA Call Number: BnF 329525 (B4 -- Closed Stacks -- BnF Collection)

Bloom, Harold, ed. Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. Modern Critical
Interpretations. New York: Chelsea House, 1987.
BA Call Number: 842.914 S1934 (E)

Brater, Enoch. Why Beckett: With 122 Illustrations. Collection Esthétique. New York:
Thames and Hudson, 1989.
BA Call Number: 848.91409 Bra W (E)

Casanova, Pascale. Beckett l’abstracteur: Anatomie d’une révolution littéraire. Fiction

& Cie. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1997.
BA Call Number: BnF 310671 (B4 -- Closed Stacks -- BnF Collection)

Clément, Bruno, and François Noudelmann. Samuel Beckett. Auteurs. Paris: Ministère
des Affaires étrangères. Association pour la diffusion de la pensée française, 2006.
BA Call Number: BnF 343372 (B4 -- Closed Stacks -- BnF Collection)
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Edwards, Michael. Beckett ou Le don des langues: Essai. Institut Collégial Européen.
Montpellier: Espaces 34, 1998.
BA Call Number: BnF 352453 (B4 -- Closed Stacks -- BnF Collection)

vrard, Franck, ed. En attendant Godot, Fin de partie, Samuel Beckett. CAPES.
Agrégation lettres. Paris: Ellipses, 1998.
BA Call Number: BnF 332260 (B4 -- Closed Stacks -- BnF Collection)

Graver, Lawrence, and Raymond Federman, eds. Samuel Beckett: The Critical
Heritage. Critical Heritage Series. London: Routledge, 1997.
BA Call Number: 828.912 Gra S (E)

velyne. L’esthétique de Beckett. Collection Esthétique. [Paris]: SEDES,

1998.
BA Call Number: BnF 303350 (B4 -- Closed Stacks -- BnF Collection)

Guinoiseau, Stéphane. En attendant Godot de Beckett: Étude de l’œuvre. Repères

Hachette 2. Paris: Hachette éducation, 1995.
BA Call Number: BnF 398650 (B4 -- Closed Stacks -- BnF Collection)

Huston, Nancy. Limbes: Un hommage à Samuel Beckett. Un endroit où aller 84.

Montréal, QC: Leméac; Arles: Actes Sud, 2000.
BA Call Number: BnF 385875 (B4 -- Closed Stacks -- BnF Collection)

Jouannaud, Laurent. “L’Innommable (1953)”. Chap. 7 in Toxiques: Quand les livres font
mal. Perspectives critiques. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2003.
BA Call Number: BnF 420955 (B4 -- Closed Stacks -- BnF Collection)

Juliet, Charles. Rencontres avec Samuel Beckett. Paris: P.O.L, 1999.

BA Call Number: 842.914 B3965r (E)

Lalande, Bernard. En attendant Godot (1952), Samuel Beckett: Résumé, personnages,

thèmes. Profil d’une œuvre 16. Paris: Hatier, 1970.
BA Call Number: 842.91 Lal E (E)

Lall, Ramji. Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot: A Critical Study. 16th ed. New Delhi:
Rama, 1998.
BA Call Number: 842.914 B3965wa 1998 (E)

Lavielle, Emile. En attendant Godot: De Beckett. Poche critique. Paris: Hachette, 1972.
BA Call Number: 842.914 L411 (E)

velyne. Fin de partie, de Samuel Beckett. Parcours de lecture, série œuvres

intégrales. Paris: Bertrand-Lacoste, 1997.
BA Call Number: BnF 360325 (B4 -- Closed Stacks -- BnF Collection)
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 velyne. Oh les beaux jours, Beckett. Parcours de lecture, série œuvres
intégrales. Paris: Bertrand-Lacoste, 1998.
BA Call Number: BnF 415650 (B4 -- Closed Stacks -- BnF Collection)

Lire Beckett: En attendant Godot, Fin de partie

Lumière-Lyon 2 le 21 novembre 1998 par la
Faculté des lettres de Lyon 2 et par la Société d’études de la littérature française du
XXe siècle. Edited by Didier Alexandre and Jean-Yves Debreuille. Lyon: Presses
Universitaires de Lyon, 1998.
BA Call Number: BnF 355806 (B4 -- Closed Stacks -- BnF Collection)

Louette, Jean-François. En attendant Godot ou L’amitié cruelle. Belin Sup/Lettres. Les

œuvres. Paris: Belin, 2002.
BA Call Number: BnF 420788 (B4 -- Closed Stacks -- BnF Collection)

Marsat, Jacques. Oh les beaux jours, Pas moi, Samuel Beckett: Des repères pour situer
l’auteur. Balises 137. Paris: Nathan, 1998.
BA Call Number: BnF 300782 (B4 -- Closed Stacks -- BnF Collection)

Mayoux, Jean-Jacques. “Molloy: Un évènement littéraire, une œuvre“. In Molloy, by

Samuel Beckett; suivi de Molloy: Un évènement littéraire, une œuvre, by Jean-Jacques
Mayoux. Double 7. Paris: Éditions de Minuit, 1988.
BA Call Number: 843.914 B3965m (F1 -- Closed Stacks -- Nobel Collection -- 1969)

McDonald, Ronan. The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Beckett. Cambridge

Introductions to Literature. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
BA Call Number: 848.91409 M1351 (E)

Miller, Lawrence. Samuel Beckett: The Expressive Dilemma. New York: St. Martin'
s
Press, 1992.
BA Call Number: 842.914 B3965m (E)

Miraux, Jean-Philippe. En attendant Godot, Samuel Beckett. Œuvre au clair 19. [Paris]:
Bordas, 2004.
BA Call Number: 842.914 M672 (E)

Pilling, John, éd. The Cambridge Companion to Beckett. Cambridge Companions to

Literature. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
BA Call Number: 848.9009 Pil C (E)

Quintallet, Jacques. Samuel Beckett, En attendant Godot. Connaissance d’une œuvre

39. Rosny: Bréal, 1999.
BA Call Number: BnF 358765 (B4 -- Closed Stacks -- BnF Collection)

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Rojtman, Betty. Forme et signification dans le théâtre de Beckett. 2nd ed. Paris:
A. G. Nizet, 1987.
BA Call Number: 848.91409 R7419 1987 (E)

Saadoun, Daniel, and Denis Trarieux. “Samuel Beckett, En attendant Godot”. In L'
amitié:
Aristote, Éthique à Nicomaque, Livres VIII et IX, André Gide, Les Faux-monnayeurs,
Samuel Beckett, En attendant Godot. Ancrages. Paris: Hachette, 2001: 85-157.
BA Call Number: BnF 298029 (B4 -- Closed Stacks -- BnF Collection)

Santerre, Jean-Paul. Leçon littéraire sur En attendant Godot de Beckett. Collection

Major. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2001.
BA Call Number: BnF 361751 (B4 -- Closed Stacks -- BnF Collection)

Sardin-Damestoy, Pascale. Samuel Beckett auto-traducteur ou L’art de

"l’empêchement": Lecture bilingue et génétique des textes courts auto-traduits
(1946-1980). Traductologie. Arras: Artois presses université, 2002.
BA Call Number: BnF 238742 (B4 -- Closed Stacks -- BnF Collection)

Satge, Alain. Samuel Beckett: En attendant Godot. Études littéraires 63. Paris: Presses
Universitaires de France, 1999.
BA Call Number: BnF 306974 (B4 -- Closed Stacks -- BnF Collection)

Toibin, Colm, ed. “Samuel Beckett”. In The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction. New York:
Viking, 1999: 556–597.
BA Call Number: 823.00809417 P3987 (E)

Touret, Michèle, ed. Lectures de Beckett. Didact. Français. Rennes: Presses

Universitaires de Rennes, [1998].
BA Call Number: BnF 366554 (B4 -- Closed Stacks -- BnF Collection)

Uhlmann, Anthony. Beckett and Poststructuralism. Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press, 1999.
BA Call Number: 848.91409 Uhl B (E)

Vulliard, Christine. tude sur Samuel Beckett: En attendant Godot. Résonances. Paris:
Ellipses-Marketing, 1998.
BA Call Number: BnF 394327 (B4 -- Closed Stacks -- BnF Collection)

Wolosky, Shira. Language Mysticism: The Negative Way of Language in Eliot,

Beckett, and Celan. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995.
BA Call Number: 809.04 Wol L (E)

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e-Books:

Barfield, Steven, Philip Tew, and Matthew Feldman, eds. Beckett and Death. London:
Continuum International, 2009. e-book. ebrary (database). ProQuest.

Ben-Zvi, Linda, and Angela Moorjani, eds. Beckett at 100: Revolving It All. Cary:
Oxford University Press, 2007. e-book. ebrary (database). ProQuest.

Blau, Herbert. Sails of the Herring Fleet: Essays on Beckett. Theater:

Theory/Text/Performance. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2003. e-book.
ebrary (database). ProQuest.

Boulter, Jonathan. Beckett: A Guide for the Perplexed. London: Continuum

International, 2008. The Guides for the Perplexed Series. e-book. ebrary (database).
ProQuest.

Brater, Enoch. Beyond Minimalism: Beckett' s Late Style in the Theater. Cary: Oxford
University Press, 1990. e-book. ebrary (database). ProQuest.

Byron, Mark S., ed. Samuel Beckett'

s Endgame. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007. e-book.
ebrary (database). ProQuest.

Connor, Steven. Samuel Beckett: Repetition, Theory, and Text. Aurora, CO: Davies,
2006. e-book. ebrary (database). ProQuest.

Feldman, Matthew. Beckett' s Books: A Cultural History of the Interwar Notes.

London: Continuum International, 2006. e-book. ebrary (database). ProQuest.

Gibson, Andrew. Beckett and Badiou: The Pathos of Intermittency. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2009. e-book. ebrary (database). ProQuest.

Gibson, Andrew. Samuel Beckett. Critical Lives. London: Reaktion, 2009. e-book. ebrary
(database). ProQuest.

Gordon, Lois. Reading Godot. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002. e-book.
ebrary (database). ProQuest.

Graver, Lawrence. Beckett: Waiting for Godot. 2nd ed. Landmarks of World Literature.
West Nyack: Cambridge University Press, 2004. e-book. ebrary (database). ProQuest.

Keller, John. Samuel Beckett and the Primacy of Love. Manchester: Manchester
University Press, 2002. e-book. ebrary (database). ProQuest.

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Maude, Ulrika, and Matthew Feldman, eds. Beckett and Phenomenology. Continuum
Literary Studies. London: Continuum International, 2009. e-book. ebrary (database).
ProQuest.

Nixon, Mark, and Matthew Feldman, eds. International Reception of Samuel Beckett.
Continuum Reception Studies. London: Continuum International, 2009. e-book. ebrary
(database). ProQuest.

Oppenheim, Lois. The Painted Word: Samuel Beckett' s Dialogue with Art. Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press, 2000. Online e-book. HathiTrust Digital Library
(database).
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015050154833;q1=samuel%20beckett
[accessed 10 Sep 2012]

Pothast, Ulrich. Metaphysical Vision: Arthur Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Art and

Life and Samuel Beckett' s Own Way to Make Use of It. New York, NY: Peter Lang,
2008. e-book. ebrary (database). ProQuest.

Shaw, Joanne. Impotence and Making in Samuel Beckett’s Trilogy: Molloy, Malone
Dies and The Unnamable, and How It Is. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2010. e-book. ebrary
(database). ProQuest.

Smith, Russell. Beckett and Ethics. Continuum Literary Studies. London: Continuum
International, 2009. e-book. ebrary (database). ProQuest.

Taylor-Batty, Mark, and Juliette Taylor-Batty. Modern Theatre Guides: Samuel

Beckett's Waiting for Godot. London: Continuum International, 2009. e-book. ebrary
(database). ProQuest.

Tonning, Erik, et al., eds. Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies. Amsterdam: Rodopi,
2010. e-book. ebrary (database). ProQuest.

West, Sarah. Say It: The Performative Voice in the Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett.
Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2010. e-book. ebrary (database). ProQuest.

White, Kathryn. Beckett and Decay. Continuum Literary Studies. London: Continuum
International, 2009. e-book. ebrary (database). ProQuest.

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Theses

Print Theses:

Elleithy, Reem Mohammad Wagdy Mohammed. The Irishness of Samuel Beckett.

Master’s thesis. Ain Shams University, 2008.
BA Call Number: Thesis 22196 (B4 -- Closed Stacks)

e-Theses:

Barrest, Patrick. Les enjeux de la répétition dans la trilogie romanesque de Samuel

Beckett. Master’s thesis. Queen' s University at Kingston, 2002. e-thesis. ProQuest
Dissertations and Theses (database). ProQuest.

Berne, Marie. Pour une nouvelle rhétorique: L’idiotie romanesque chez Breton,
Faulkner, Beckett et Cortazar. PhD diss. The University of British Columbia, 2005.
e-thesis. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (database). ProQuest.

Bernier, Frédérique. La voix et l’os poétiques du dépouillement chez Saint-Denys

Garneau et Samuel Beckett. PhD diss. McGill University, 2008. e-thesis. ProQuest
Dissertations and Theses (database). ProQuest.

Billet, Annick. State le mal et la souffrance dans la modernité: Le théâtre des années
40 et 50 en France et au Québec. PhD diss. University of New York at Buffalo, 2008.
e-thesis. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (database). ProQuest.

Boyd, Stephen. Sound and Silence: Samuel Beckett' s Audio Plays. Master’s thesis.
State University of New York at Buffalo, 2010. e-thesis. ProQuest Dissertations and
Theses (database). ProQuest.

Brown, Peter Robert. Narrative, Knowledge and Personhood: Stories of the Self and
Samuel Beckett' s First-Person Prose. PhD diss. McGill University, 1998. Online e-thesis.
Érudit (database). Université de Montréal; Université Laval; Université du Québec à
Montréal.
http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/-?func=dbin-jump-
full&object_id=35856&silo_library=GEN01

Buchler, Danièle Josiane. “Didi et Gogo: Les nouveaux Zanni du 20e siècle”. Chap. 4.3 In
Le bouffon et le carnavalesque dans le théâtre français, d'
Adam de la Halle à Samuel
Beckett. PhD diss. University of Florida, 2003. e-thesis. ProQuest Dissertations and
Theses (database). ProQuest.

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Carrière, Julien F. Samuel Beckett and Bilingualism: How the Return to English
Influences the Later Writing Style and Gender Roles of All that Fall and Happy Days.
PhD diss. Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College, 2005.
Online e-thesis. Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Library (database). Louisiana State
University.
http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-07282005-174600/unrestricted/Carriere_dis.pdf

Côté, Louis. Parole blanche et tentation du silence chez Samuel Beckett: Un logos sans
telos. Master’s thesis. Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 2000. e-thesis. ProQuest
Dissertations and Theses (database). ProQuest.

Côté-Fournier, Alexandre. La ballade de Gilbert; suivi de Le quotidien dans Molloy de

Samuel Beckett. Master’s thesis. Université de Montréal, 2011. e-thesis. Papyrus
(database). Université de Montréal.
https://papyrus.bib.umontreal.ca/jspui/bitstream/1866/5496/4/Cote-
Fournier_Alexandre_2011_memoire.pdf

Del Degan, Dario. The Staged Painting of Samuel Beckett. PhD diss. University of
Toronto Canada, 2007. e-thesis. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (database). ProQuest.

Dospinescu, Ovidiu Liviu. Pour une théorie de l'espace vide: Stratégies énonciatives
de la mise en scène dans les "pièces pour la télévision" de Samuel Beckett. PhD diss.
Universite du Québec à Montréal, 2007. e-thesis. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
(database). ProQuest.

Flenga-Anderson, Vassiliki. “Passage d’Impromptu”. In L’ob-scène: Cadre et

représentation dans trois pièces de dérision de Ionesco, Beckett et Genet. PhD diss.
University of Florida, 1996: 85-140. e-thesis. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
(database). ProQuest.

Fraser, Graham. The Self-Conscious Narrator in Beckett' s Trilogy. Master’s thesis.

McGill University, 1990. e-thesis. Érudit (database). Université de Montréal; Université
Laval; Université du Québec à Montréal.
http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/-?func=dbin-jump-
full&object_id=59888&silo_library=GEN01

Grigorut, Constantin. “Travestissement de la finitude dans le théâtre de Samuel Beckett:

Fin de Partie (1957)”. Chap. 2 in Métaphysique de la finitude et intertextualité dans la
littérature française après 1945: Cioran, Beckett, Tournier. PhD diss. The University of
British Columbia, 2005. e-thesis. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (database).
ProQuest.

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Hellman, Thomas. Beckett, Babel et bilinguisme, suivi de Espaces. Master’s thesis.
McGill University, 2004. Online e-thesis. Érudit (database). Université de Montréal;
Université Laval; Université du Québec à Montréal.
http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/-?func=dbin-jump-
full&object_id=79945&silo_library=GEN01

Inkel, Stéphane. Les fantômes et la voix politique de l' énonciation et langue

maternelle chez Rejean Ducharme et Samuel Beckett. PhD diss. Universite du Québec
à Montréal, 2005. e-thesis. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (database). ProQuest.

Jacquemont, Christiane Vymetal. La luminotechnie dans le théâtre de Samuel Beckett:

Dramaturgie et métaphysique. PhD diss. Rice University, 1980. e-thesis. ProQuest
Dissertations and Theses (database). ProQuest.

Khouri, Nadia. A Functional Situation in Samuel Beckett' s Representative Plays.

Master’s thesis. McGill University, 1972. e-thesis. Érudit (database). Université de
Montréal; Université Laval; Université du Québec à Montréal.
http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/R/-?func=dbin-jump-
full&amp;current_base=GEN01&amp;object_id=45870

Louar, Nadia. Bilingualism in Beckett' s Work. PhD diss. University of California, 2004.
e-thesis. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (database). ProQuest.

Maloney Cahill, B. Claire. Samuel Beckett and the Irish Grotesque Tradition. Master’s
thesis. McGill University, 1995. e-thesis. Érudit (database). Université de Montréal;
Université Laval; Université du Québec à Montréal.
http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/-?func=dbin-jump-
full&object_id=22606&silo_library=GEN01

O'Reilly, Magessa. Formes et rythmes romanesques dans Molloy, Comment c'est et

Compagnie de Samuel Beckett. PhD diss. University of Ottawa, 1990. e-thesis. ProQuest
Dissertations and Theses (database). ProQuest.

Ouellette, Michel. “L’épistémogénèse chez Beckett”. Des idées scientifiques et des

genres littéraires: Une enquête épistémocritique, des romantiques à la cybernétique.
PhD diss. University of Ottawa, 2009: 268-289. e-thesis. ProQuest Dissertations and
Theses (database). ProQuest.

Paloutzian, Mark. The Mirthless Laugh: Feeling Pain in Samuel Beckett'

s Trilogy of
Novels. PhD diss. The Claremont Graduate University, 2009. e-thesis. ProQuest
Dissertations and Theses (database). ProQuest.

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Pillet, Stephane. "To Know if There is Something or Nothing": The Relationship
between Fiction and Reality in the Works of Stéphane Mallarmé, Samuel Beckett,
Louis-René des Forêts and J. M. G. Le Clézio. PhD diss. University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, 2001. e-thesis. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (database).
ProQuest.

Piroux, Cyril. La figure du rond-de-cuir ou l' écriture de l'

impotence une idée du
roman français au XXe siècle. PhD diss. Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 2011.
e-thesis. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (database). ProQuest.

Rigby, George Thomas. L’intertextualité biblique dans En attendant Godot en Fin de

Partie de Samuel Beckett. Master’s thesis. Carleton University, 1993. e-thesis. ProQuest
Dissertations and Theses (database). ProQuest.

Sawdey, Michael Raynor. The Incurious Seeker: A Study of the Anti-Quest in Samuel
s Novels. PhD diss. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1974. e-thesis.
Beckett'
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (database). ProQuest.

Shinkle, Martha Ann. Eleutheria de Samuel Beckett: Nouvelles perspectives sur une
pièce manquée. Master’s thesis. Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1998. e-thesis.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (database). ProQuest.

Taban, Anamaria Carla. Modalités poétiques de configuration textuelle: Le cas de

Molloy de Samuel Beckett. PhD diss. University of Toronto, 2007. e-thesis. ProQuest
Dissertations and Theses (database). ProQuest.

Treadwell, Christopher. Le lisible et l' illisible: Réflexion et métatextualité chez

Beckett, Camus et Merleau-Ponty. PhD diss. Emory University, 2009. e-thesis. ProQuest
Dissertations and Theses (database). ProQuest.

Willits, Curt G. Samuel Beckett and the End(s) of Man: Writing at the Limits of
Experience. PhD diss. The Florida State University, 2003. e-thesis. ProQuest
Dissertations and Theses (database). ProQuest.

Wuensch, April. Beckett and the Narrative Abode: Space, from Theater to Lost Ones.
PhD diss. The Johns Hopkins University, 2004. e-thesis. ProQuest Dissertations and
Theses (database). ProQuest.

Wulf, Catharina. Desire in Beckett: A Lacanian Approach to Samuel Beckett' s Plays

Krapp's Last Tape, Not I, That Time, Footfalls and Rockaby. Master’s thesis. McGill
University, 1989. e-thesis. Érudit (database). Université de Montréal; Université Laval;
Université du Québec à Montréal.
http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/-?func=dbin-jump-
full&object_id=59554&silo_library=GEN01

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Journals:

hui. Rodopi. e-journal. JSTOR (database). ITHACA.

Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'
1992-2005.

Special Numbers:

James Joyce Quarterly 8, no. 4 (Summer 1971). Beckett Issue. University of Tulsa.
e-journal. JSTOR (database). ITHACA.

Journal of Modern Literature 6, no. 1 (Feb. 1977). Samuel Beckett Special Number.
Indiana University Press. e-journal. JSTOR (database). ITHACA.

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Articles:

Ackerman, Alan. “Samuel Beckett' s Spectres du Noir: The Being of Painting and the
Flatness of Film”. Contemporary Literature 44, no. 3 (autumn 2003): 399−441. e-article.
JSTOR (database). ITHACA.

Atik, Anne. “Beckett as Reader”. The American Poetry Review 28, no. 5 (Sep/Oct 1999):
33−38. e-article. JSTOR (database). ITHACA.

Banfield, Ann. “Beckett'

s Tattered Syntax”. Representations, no. 84 (autumn 2003),
In Memory of Michael Rogin: 6−29. e-article. JSTOR (database). ITHACA.

Barry, Elizabeth. “One' s Own Company: Agency, Identity and the Middle Voice in the
Work of Samuel Beckett”. Journal of Modern Literature 31, no. 2 (Winter 2008):
115−132. e-article. JSTOR (database). ITHACA.

Bedient, Calvin. “Beckett and the Drama of Gravity”. The Sewanee Review 78, no. 1
(Winter 1970): 143−155. e-article. JSTOR (database). ITHACA.

Bernier, Frédérique. ”Enfances de Samuel Beckett“. Contre-jour, no. 9 (2006): 25−38.

Online e-article. Érudit (database). Université de Montréal; Université Laval; Université
du Québec à Montréal.
www.erudit.org/culture/cj1001905/cj1004095/618ac.pdf

Breuer, Rolf. “Paradox in Beckett”. The Modern Language Review 88, no. 3 (Jul 1993):
559−580. e-article. JSTOR (database). ITHACA.

Cornwell, Ethel F. “Samuel Beckett: The Flight from Self”. Publications of the Modern
Language Association of America (PMLA) 88, no. 1 (Jan 1973): 41−51. e-article. JSTOR
(database). ITHACA.

Cornwell, Ethel F., and Laura Barge. “The Beckett Hero”. Publications of the Modern
Language Association of America (PMLA) 92, no. 5 (Oct 1977): 1006−1008. e-article.
JSTOR (database). ITHACA.

De Clercq, Martine. ”Le problème de l' intertextualité dans la traduction littéraire:

L'exemple de Beckett“. Meta 29, no. 3 (1984): 253−258. Online e-article. Érudit
(database). Université de Montréal; Université Laval; Université du Québec à Montréal.
www.erudit.org/revue/meta/1984/v29/n3/002344ar.pdf

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Figlerowicz, Marta. “Bounding the Self: Ethics, Anxiety and Territories of Personhood in
Samuel Beckett' s Fiction”.Journal of Modern Literature 34, no. 2 (Winter 2011): 76-96.
e-article . Academic Search Complete (database). EBSCO.

Fletcher, John. “Samuel Beckett and the Philosophers”. Comparative Literature 17, no. 1
(Winter 1965): 43−56. e-article. JSTOR (database). ITHACA.

Freund, Peter. “The Eye in the Object: Identification and Surveillance in Samuel
Beckett' s Screen Dramas”. Journal of Film and Video 50, no. 1 (Spring 1998): 42−49.
e-article. JSTOR (database). ITHACA.

Gontarski, S. E. “Beckett and Performance”. Journal of Irish Studies 17 (2002), Japan

and Ireland: 89−97. e-article. JSTOR (database). ITHACA.

Hanna, Blake T. ”Samuel Beckett: Traducteur de lui-même“. Meta 17, no. 4 (1972):
220−224. Online e-article. Érudit (database). Université de Montréal; Université Laval;
Université du Québec à Montréal.
www.erudit.org/revue/meta/1972/v17/n4/003005ar.pdf

Jacobsen, Josephine, and William R. Mueller. “Beckett as Poet”. Prairie Schooner 37,
no. 3 (Autumn 1963): 196−216. e-article. JSTOR (database). ITHACA.

Keatinge, Benjamin. “Beckett and Language Pathology”. Journal of Modern Literature

31, no. 4 (Summer 2008): 86−101. e-article. JSTOR (database). ITHACA.

Kirschen, Robert M. “The Influences of and on Samuel Beckett”. Journal of Modern

Literature 31, no. 2 (Winter 2008): 143−148. e-article. JSTOR (database). ITHACA.

Klaver, Elizabeth. “Samuel Beckett's Ohio Impromptu, Quad, and What Where: How it is in
the Matrix of Text and Television”. Contemporary Literature 32, no. 3 (Autumn 1991):
366−382. e-article. JSTOR (database). ITHACA.

Lynch, Mary. “‘Thought Is Wisdom, in a Dream’: Dream of Fair to Middling Women by

Samuel Beckett“. Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review 90, no. 359 (Autumn 2001):
291−298. e-article. JSTOR (database). ITHACA.

Maier, Franz Michael. “The Idea of Melodic Connection in Samuel Beckett”. Journal of
the American Musicological Society 61, no. 2 (Summer 2008): 373−410. e-article. JSTOR
(database). ITHACA.

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McGuire, James. “Beckett, the Translator, and the Metapoem”. World Literature Today
64, no. 2 (Spring 1990), The Letter: A Dying Art?: 258−263. e-article. JSTOR (database).
ITHACA.

Montaut, Annie. “Narration, récit et désémiotisation dans Le dépeupleur de Samuel

Becket”. Dalhousie French Studies 4 (Oct 1982): 98−112. e-article. JSTOR (database).
ITHACA.

Murray, Patrick. “Samuel Beckett and Tradition”. Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review
58, no. 230 (Summer 1969): 166−178. e-article. JSTOR (database). ITHACA.

O'Grady, Desmond. “Beckett in Paris”. The Poetry Ireland Review, no. 37

(Winter 1992/1993): 126−132. e-article. JSTOR (database). ITHACA.

O'Leary, Joseph S. “Beckett and Radio”. Journal of Irish Studies 23 (2008): 3−11.
e-article. JSTOR (database). ITHACA.

O'Leary, Joseph S. “Beckett' s Intertextual Power”. Journal of Irish Studies 18 (2003):

87−101. e-article. JSTOR (database). ITHACA.

O'Reilly, Magessa. “Texte pour rien XIII de Samuel Beckett: Édition critique et étude de
variantes”. Revue d' histoire littéraire de la France 90e année, no. 2 (Mar-Apr 1990):
227−237. e-article. JSTOR (database). ITHACA.

Rabinovitz, Rubin. “Samuel Beckett' s Figurative Language”. Contemporary Literature

26, no. 3 (Autumn 1985): 317−330. e-article. JSTOR (database). ITHACA.

Siess, Jürgen. “Beckett, du théâtre à la télévision: Dis Joe“. Contemporary French &
Francophone Studies 10, no. 3 (Sep 2006): 249−255. e-article. Academic Search Complete
(database). EBSCO.

Taylor-Batty, Juliette. “Imperfect Mastery: The Failure of Grammar in Beckett' s

L'Innommable”. Journal of Modern Literature 30, no. 2 (Winter 2007): 163−179. e-article.
JSTOR (database). ITHACA.

Tešanovi , Biljana. “Beckett et Cioran: Se faire adopter par une langue“. Annual Review
of the Faculty of Philosophy/Godisnjak Filozofskog Fakulteta 35, no. 3 (2010):
101−108. e-article. Academic Search Complete (database). EBSCO.

Woodward, Kathleen. “Transitional Objects and the Isolate: Samuel Beckett'

s Malone
Dies. Contemporary Literature 26, no. 2 (Summer 1985): 140−154. e-article. JSTOR
(database). ITHACA.

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Web Resources:

Association “La maison Samuel Beckett“.

www.beckett-roussillon.com [accessed 9 Sep 2012]

“The Nobel Prize in Literature 1969: Samuel Beckett“. NobelPrize.org

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