Samuel Beckett

Bibliography

[Picture of Samuel Beckett]
  • Our exagmination round his factification for incamination of work in progress, 1929
  • Whohoscope, 1930
  • Proust, 1931
  • More pricks than kicks, 1934
  • Echo's bones, 1935
  • Murphy, 1938
  • Molloy, 1951
  • Malone meurt, 1951 - Malone dies
  • L'innommable, 1953 - The Unnamable
  • En attendant godot, 1952 - Waiting for Godot
  • Watt, 1953
  • Nouvelles et textes pour rien, 1955
  • Fin de partie, 1957 - Endgame
  • The Unnameable, 1958
  • From an abandoned work, 1958
  • Bram van velde, 1958
  • Acte sans paroles, 1958
  • Krapp's last tape, 1959
  • All that fall, 1959
  • Happy days, 1961
  • Comment c'est, 1961 - How it is
  • Words and music, 1962
  • Acte sans paroles ii, 1963
  • Cascando, 1963
  • Play, 1964
  • Imagination morte imaginez, 1965
  • Assez, 1966
  • Bing, 1966
  • Film, 1967
  • Va et vient, 1967 - Come and Go
  • No knife, 1967
  • Eh joe, 1967
  • L'issue, 1968
  • Sans, 1968
  • Breath, 1970
  • Premier amour, 1970
  • Séjour, 1970
  • Le dépeupler, 1971
  • Breath and other short plays, 1972
  • Abandonne, 1972
  • The north, 1972
  • Nor i, 1973
  • Still, 1974
  • Mercier et camier, 1974
  • All strange away, 1976
  • Ghost trio, 1976
  • That time, 1976
  • Rough for theatre i, 1976
  • Rough for radio i, 1976
  • Rough for radio ii, 1976
  • For to wend yet again and other fizzles, 1976
  • Four novellas, 1977
  • ... But the clouds..., 1977
  • Mirlitonnades, 1978
  • Company, 1979
  • All strange away, 1979
  • Nohow on, 1981
  • Rockaby, 1982
  • Ohio impromptu, 1982
  • A piece of monologue, 1982
  • Mal vu mal dit, 1982 - Ill Seen Ill Said
  • Worstward ho, 1983
  • What where, 1983
  • Nacht und träume, 1983
  • The collected shorter plays of Samuel Beckett, 1984
  • Quad, 1984
  • Catastrophe, 1984
  • Complete dramatic works, 1986
  • Hommage à jack b. Yeats, 1988
  • Teleplays, 1988
  • Le monde et le pantalon, 1989
  • Stirring still, 1989
  • Dream of fair to middling women, 1992
  • Samuel Beckett: the complete short prose, 1929-1989, 1995
  • Nohow on: three novels, 1996


BIF items

The Beckett International Foundation has a number of useful publications, including:

Beckett at Reading catalogue of the Beckett manuscript collection at the University of Reading compiled by Mary Bryden, Julian Garforth, Peter Mills (from BIF: paperback [0704913216 £15], casebound [0704913208 £25])

Beckett's Dream Notebook edited, annotated, and with an introductory essay by John Pilling

The Ideal core of the onion: Reading Beckett archives edited by John Pilling and Mary Bryden

The Samuel Beckett collection: a catalogue [£5 pounds (inclusive of p&p); catalogue + supplements to date 20.00 pounds (inclusive of p&p)]

Collected works:

Complete Dramatic Works

Beckett Shorts

Beckett Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

Three main biographies:

Deirdre Bair Samuel Beckett: A Biography (Simon & Schuster, 1978)

Anthony Cronin Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist (HarperCollins, 1996)

James Knowlson Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett (Simon & Schuster, 1996)

Other guides/books:

John Calder The Philosophy of Samuel Beckett

John Fletcher Faber Critical Guides - Samuel Beckett: "Waiting for Godot", "Krapp's Last Tape", "Endgame"

Maurice Harmon No Author Better Served: The Correspondence of Samuel Beckett and Alan Schneider

Charles Juliet Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram Van Velde

David Pattie The Complete Critical Guide to Samuel Beckett

John Pilling (Editor) The Cambridge Companion to Beckett

Christopher Ricks Beckett's Dying Words