Recent

Dream of Fair to Middling Women. London: Calder, 1992; New York: Arcade, 1992.
Eleutheria. Paris: Minuit, 1995.
Eleuthéria, A Play in Three Acts. Trans. Michael Brodky. New York: Foxrock, 1995.
Eleutheria. Trans. Barbara Wright. London: Faber and Faber, 1996.
En attendant Godot, Fin de partie, Samuel Beckett. Ed. Franck Evrad. Collection C.A.P.E.S./Agregation Lettres. Paris: Ellipses, 1998.
Malone umiera [Polish translation of Malone Dies]. Trans. Marek Kedzierski. Cracow: Oficyna Literacka Publishers, 1997.
No Author Better Served: The Correspondence of Samuel Beckett and Alan Schneider. Ed. Maurice Harmon. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1998.
Nowhow On: Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho. Introduction by S.E. Gontarski. New York: Grove, 1996.
Quad et autres pièces pour la television [Trio du fantôme, ...que nuages..., Nacht und Traume]. Trans. Edith Fournier, suivi de L'épuisé par Gilles Deleuze. Paris: Minuit, 1992.
Samuel Beckett: The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989. Ed. S. E. Gontarski. New York: Grove, 1996.

Forthcoming

The Collected Letters of Samuel Beckett. Ed. Lois More Overbeck (Emory University) and Martha Fehsenfeld (Emory University).

Publications on his Work, New and Forthcoming

Information compiled from recent issues of The Beckett Circle: Newsletter of The Samuel Beckett Society and other sources. See also: Biographical Texts and Bibliographies.

TEXTS ENTIRELY ON BECKETT

Forthcoming

Cohn, Ruby. A Beckett Canon. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, June 2001.

Just Out

Birkett, Jennifer, and Kate Ince, eds. Samuel Beckett. New York: Longman, 2000.
Blau, Herbert. Sails of the Herring Fleet: Essays on Beckett. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.
Cascetta, Annemaria. Il tragico et l'unorismo: Studio sulla drammaturgia di Samuel Beckett. Florence: Le Lettere, 2000.
Chawla, Nishi. Samuel Beckett: Reading the Body in his Writing. New Delhi: Prestige, 1999.
Davies, Paul. Beckett and Eros: the Death of Humanism. Houndmills: Macmillan, 2000.
Engleberts, Matthijs, Marius Buning, and Sjef Houppermans, eds. Poetry and Other Prose/Poesieset autres proses. Volume 8 of Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999.
Oppenheim, Lois. The Painted Word: Beckett's Dialogue with Art. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, April 2000.
Sussman, Henry and Christopher Devenney, eds. Engagement and Indifference: Beckett and the Political. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000.
Wesberg, David. Chronicles of Disorder: Samuel Beckett and the Cultural Politics of the Modern Novel. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000.

Recent

Abbott, H. Porter. Beckett Writing Beckett: The Author in the Autograph. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996.
Acheson, James. Samuel Beckett's Artistic Theory and Practice: Criticism, Drama, and Early Fiction. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.
Andonian, Cathleen C., ed. The Critical Response to Samuel Beckett. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1998.
Becher, Frank. Keine Versohnung mit dem Nichts: Zur Rezeption von Samuel Beckett in der DDR. New York: Peter Lang, 1997.
BECKETTIANA. Cuadernos del Seminario Beckett (Universidad de Buenos Aires), No. 4, 1995.
Begam, Richard. Samuel Beckett and the End of Modernity. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996.
Breuer, Rolf and Werner Huber, eds. A Checklist of Beckett Criticism in German. Paderborn: Schoningh, 1996.
Brockmeier, Peter, and Carola Veit, eds. Komik und Solipsismus im Werk Samuel Becketts. Stuttgart: Metzler und Poeschel, 1997.
Bryden, Mary. Samuel Beckett and the Idea of God. Basingstroke: Macmillan, 1998.
Bryden, Mary, ed. Samuel Beckett and Music. Oxford University Press, 1998.
Bryden, Mary, Julian Garforth, and Peter Mills. Beckett at Reading: Catalogue of the Beckett Manuscript Collection at the University of Reading. Reading: Whiteknights Press & Beckett International Foundation, 1998.
Buning, Marius, Danielle De Ruyter, Matthijis Engelberts, and Sjef Houppermans, eds. Beckett vs. Beckett. Volume 7 of Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui. Amsterdam & Atlanta, GA: Rodopoi, 1998.Baker, Phil. Beckett and the Mythology of Psychoanalysis. London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.
Buning, Marius, Matthijs Engleberts, Sjef Houppermans, and Emmanuel Jacquart, eds. Samuel Beckett: Crossroads and Borderlines. L'oeuvre carrefour/l'oeuvre limite. Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodophi, 1997.
Baumlttner, Gottfried. Unterwegs im 20. Jahrhundert: Errinerungen, Begegnungen, Anekdoten. Dornach, Germany: Verlag am Goetheanum, 1997.
Casanova, Pascale. Beckett l'abstracteur: Anatomie d'une revolution litteraire. Paris: Seuil, 1996.
Cousineau, Thomas. After the Final No: Samuel Beckett's Trilogy. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1999.
Cronin, Anthony. Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist. London: Harper Collins, 1996.
Edwards, Michael. Beckett et le don des langues. Paris: Editions Espace 34, 1998.
Federman, Raymond and William R. Howe. Sam Changed Tense: A Collection of Poems in Homage to Samuel Beckett. Buffalo: Tailspin Press, 1996.
Friedman, Alan. Beckett in Black and Red: Samuel Beckett's Translations for Nancy Cunard's "Negro." Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1999.
Gontarski, S. E., ed. The Beckett Studies Reader. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Gordon, Lois. The World of Samuel Beckett. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.
Grossman, Evelyne. L'esthetique de Beckett. Paris: SEDES, 1998.
Grossman, Evelyne, and Regis Salado, eds. Samuel Beckett: l'ecriture et la scene. Paris: SEDES, 1998.
Harel, Vered. Samuel Beckett and the Absurd (Hebrew). Tel Aviv: Chericover publishing house, 1997.
Hoeden van der, Jean. Samuel Beckett et la question de Dieu. Paris: Edition du Cerf, 1997.
Hunkeler, Thomas. Echos de l'ego dans l'oeuvre de Samuel Beckett. Paris & Montreal: L'Harmattan, 1997.
Jeffers, Jennifer M., ed. Samuel Beckett: A Casebook. Levittown, PA: Garland, 1998.
Junker, Mary. Beckett: The Irish Dimension. Niwot, CO: Irish American Book Company, 1997.
Katz, Daniel. Saying "I" No More: Subjectivity and Consciousness in the Prose of Samuel Beckett. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1999.
Kim, Hwa Soon. The Counterpoint of Hope, Obsession and Desire for Death in Five Plays by Samuel Beckett. New York: Peter Lang, 1996.
Knowlson, James. Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett. London: Bloomsbury, 1996.
Kundert-Gibbs, John L. No-Thing Is Left to Tell/Chaos Theory in the Dramatic Art of Samuel Beckett. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickenson University Press, 1999.
Libera, Antoni, ed. Samuel Beckett Dramaty. Warsaw: Biblioteka Narodowa, 1995.
Libera, Antoni. Samuel Beckett: Wiernosc prezgranej. Krakow: Wydanictwo Znak, 1999.
Lombez, Christine, Herve Bismuth, and Ciaran Ross. Lectures d'une oeuvre: En attendant Godot, Fin de partie, de Samuel Beckett. Paris: Editions du Temps, 1998.
Mitchel, Breon & Lois More Overbeck, eds. Word and Image: Samuel Beckett and the Visual Text/Mot et image: Samuel Beckett et le texte visuel. Atlanta: Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University,1999. [for copies, contact Druid Hills Bookstore, Atlanta]
O'Hara, J. D. Samuel Beckett's Hidden Drives: Structural Uses of Depth Psychology. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997.
Oppenheim, Lois. Directing Beckett (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997). [Now in paperback].
Oppenheim, Lois, ed. Samuel Beckett and the Arts: Music, Visual Arts and Non-Print Media. New York: Garland, 1999.
Oppenheim, Lois and Marius Buning, eds. Beckett On and On. . . Madison and London: Associated University Presses, 1996. [Now in paperback]
Phalese, Hubert de [psuedonym of research team]. Beckett a la lettre: En attendant Godot, Fin de partie. Paris: Nizet, 1998.
Pilling, John. Beckett Before Godot: The Formative Years (1929-1946). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Pultar, Gonul. Technique and Tradition in Beckett's Trilogy of Novels. Lanham,MD: University Press of America, 1996.
Rathjen, Friedhelm. Samuel Beckett und Sein Fahrrader. Dramstadt: Verlag Jurgenhausser, 1996.
Stevens, Richard. The Insanity of Beckett's Art. Parker, CO: Parker Distributing, 1997.
Tonnies, Merle. Samuel Beckett's Dramatic Strategy: Audience Laughter and the Postmodernist Debate. Trier, GER: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 1997.
Touret, Lectures de Beckett. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 1998.
Uhlmann, Anthony. Beckett and Poststructuralism. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

TEXTS IN PART ON BECKETT

Bignell, Jonathan, ed. Writing and Cinema. Harlow and New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 1999. [Chapter on Beckett and film]
Bishop, Tom. From the Left Bank: Reflections on the Modern French Theater and Novel. New York: New York University Press.
Bouchard, Norma. Celine, Gadda, Beckett: Experimental Writings of the 1930s. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001.
Collages and Bricolages. Special issue: Beckett, Ionesco and Metaphysical Farce, No. 10, 1996-7. Guest Editor: Rosette Lamont.
Gaffney, Phyllis. Healing Amid the Ruins: the Irish Hospital at St-Lo (1945-46). A&A Farmar, 1999.
Guralnick, Elissa. Sight Unseen: Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard and Other Contemporary Dramatists on Radio. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1998.
Igoe, Vivien. A Literary Guide to Dublin. London: Methuen,1994. Distribution: Karen Strauss, Strauss Consultations.
Innes, Christopher & Frederick J. Marker, eds. Modernism in European Drama: Ibsen, Strindberg, Pirandello, Beckett. 40th anniversary issue of Modern Drama. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, October 1998.
Magazine Litteraire. No. 372 (January 1999) [Beckett dossier, pp. 18-69]
Malkin, Jeanette R. Memory-Theater and Postmodern Drama. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999.
[Chapter on: "Samuel Beckett's Postures of Memory"]
Miller, Tyrus. Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts between the World Wars. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. [Chapter on the early fiction through Murphy]
Nilsen, Don L.F. Humor in Irish Literature: A Reference Guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996.
Perloff, Marjorie. Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Richardson, Brian. Unlikely Stories: Causality and the Nature of Modern Narrative. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1997. [chapter on Molloy]
Wolosky, Shira. Language Mysticism: The Negative Way in Eliot, Beckett, and Celan. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995.
Wulf, Catharina. The Imperative of Narration: Beckett, Bernhard, Schopenhauer, Lacan. Brighton, UK: Sussex Academic Press, 1997.

Biographical Texts

Texts entirely on Beckett

Bair, Deirdre. Samuel Beckett: A Biography. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978.
Bernold, Andre. L'amitié de Beckett, 1979-1989. Paris: Hermann, 1992.
Brater, Enoch. Why Beckett. London: Thames and Hudson, 1989.
Cronin, Anthony. Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist. London: Harper Collins, 1996.
Gordon, Lois. The World of Samuel Beckett. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.
Gussow, Mel. Conversations With and About Beckett. New York: Grove Press, 1996.
Juliet, Charles. Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde. Leiden, Netherlands: Academic Press, 1996.
Juliet, Charles. Recontre avec Samuel Beckett. Paris: Fata Morgana, 1996.
Knowlson, James. Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996.

Texts in-part on Beckett

Whitelaw, Billie. Billie Whitelaw...Who He? New York: St. Martins Press, 1996.

Bibliographies of Samuel Beckett Material

Andonian, Cathleen Culotta. Samuel Beckett: A Reference Guide. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1989.
Browne, Joseph. "The 'Critic' and Samuel Beckett: A Bibliographic Essay." College Literature 8:3 (Fall 1981): 292-309.
Brueur, Rolf and Werner Huber. A Checklist of Beckett Criticism in German. Paderborn: Schoning, 1996.
Carpenter, Charles A. "Some Elusive Parts of Books on Beckett's Drama, 1966-1980." The Beckett Circle 3:1 (Spring 1981): 2-4.
Davis, Robin J., Jackson R. Bryer, Melvin J. Friedman, and Peter C. Hoy. Samuel Beckett, Calepins de Bibliographie. Paris: Minard, 1971.
Federman, Raymond, and John Fletcher. Samuel Beckett: His Works and His Critics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970.
Gontarski, S. E. "Bibliography of Short Prose in English." Samuel Beckett: The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989. New York: Grove, 1995: 287-294.
Hessing, Kees. Beckett on Tape. Leiden: Academic Press, 1992.
Lake, Carlton, Ed. No Symbols Where None Intended: A Catalogue of Books, Manuscripts, and Other Material Relating to Samuel Beckett in the Collections of the Humanities Research Center. Austin, TX: Humanities Research Center, the University of Texas, 1984.
Murphy, P.J., Werner Huber, Rolf Breuer, and Konrad Schoell. Critique of Beckett Criticism: A Guide to Research in English, French, and German. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1994.

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