James and Elizabeth Knowlson BECKETT REMEMBERING REMEMBERING BECKETT First Edition Signed
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James and Elizabeth Knowlson BECKETT REMEMBERING REMEMBERING BECKETT First Edition Signed
First UK edition, first print hardback of BECKETT REMEMBERING: REMEMBERING BECKETT Uncollected interviews with Samuel Beckett and Memories of Those Who Knew Him. Edited by James and Elizabeth Knowlson. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London in 2006. Signed to Composer James Patten by James Knowlson on the front endpaper. Numberline 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 on the copyright page. Previous owner stamp above the inscription (James Patten - Composer).The book is in very good condition (clean black cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine) with slight wear to the dust jacket, which is not price clipped (creasing to edges). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no other inscriptions. Very slight tanning/soiling to the page edges.
James Knowlson is the author of the major Beckett biography, Damned to Fame. The Life of Samuel Beckett (Bloomsbury, 1996). He is also the author of ten other books on or editions of Beckett. He was a personal friend of Samuel Beckett for twenty years.
"Samuel Beckett, one of the towering figures of twentieth-century literature, was also famously reclusive. In these intimate interviews conducted by his biographer, James Knowlson, Beckett and his family, friends and contemporaries reveal more of the writer's human side than ever before.
Beckett himself talks of his early youth, his friendship with James Joyce and his Resistance work in Paris during the Second World War. Some of his closest friends remember him both as a schoolboy and struggling young writer, while his students at Trinity College, Dublin give their opinions of him as a lecturer. Esteemed actors, writers and directors, including Billie Whitelaw, Edward Albee and J. M. Coetzee, remember Beckett at the time of his international success. The result is a vivid collection of first-hand experiences, a tribute to a remarkable novelist, poet and dramatist."
'A volume that admirers will seize on hungrily for its details, and for the many photographs ... Refreshing and enlightening. I closed the book eager to go back to the masterworks' Kevin Jackson, Sunday Times
'These humanising glimpses are a treat for the Beckett fan ... The Knowlsons have assembled, in this scholarly but charming book, a mosaic of epiphanies ... while going some way to demystify the great Unknowable' Independent
'Beckett is surpassingly the modern author whose life rewards such devotion' Evening Standard
'Magnificently enriched by a series of interviews spread over a decade between Professor James Knowlson and Beckett' Glasgow Herald
313 pages.
ISBN: 0 7475 7882 6
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