Light and Darkness in the Theatre of Samuel Beckett; Text of a public lecture delivered at Trinity College Dublin on February 7th, 1972
London: Turret Books, 1972. First Edition. Softcover : pp.(11) 12-41 (7) : frontispiece photograph by David Sim courtesy of the Royal Court Theatre : white covers with frontis repeated in negative to top cover : cover lettering in black.
Covers lightly marked and with minor edgewear. Very good. Item #3133
"James Knowlson is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Reading. He is also the founder of the International Beckett Foundation (previously the Beckett Archive) at Reading, and he has written extensively on the great Irish author. He began his monumental biography, Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett (London: Bloomsbury, 1996) when Beckett was still alive, and he relied on the Nobel Prize winner’s active cooperation in the last months of his life. His book is widely acknowledged as the most accurate source of information on Beckett’s life, and can only be compared to Richard Ellmann’s magnificent biography of James Joyce." (The European English Messenger 15.3, 2006).
Price: $50.00