Overview
Samuel Beckett's Library critically examines the reading notes and
marginalia contained in the books of Samuel Beckett's surviving library
in Paris. Previously inaccessible to scholars, this is the first study
to assess the importance of the marginalia, inscriptions, and other
manuscript notes in the 750 volumes of the library. Setting the library
into context with other manuscript material such as drafts and
notebooks, this book examines the way in which Beckett absorbed,
'translated', and transmitted his reading in his own work. It thus
illuminates Beckett's cultural and intellectual world, and shows the
ways in which his reading often engendered writing.