This Quarter : Surrealist Number

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Title

This Quarter : Surrealist Number

Subject

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989. Translations.

Description

v.5:no.1 (1932: Sept.) Surrealist number of the journal which includes poems by Andre Breton and Paul Éluard "rendered into English" by Samuel Beckett.

In his introduction to the surrealist number of This Quarter, Edward Titus wrote: “We shall not speak of the difficulties experienced in putting the material placed at our disposal into English, but we cannot refrain from singling out Mr. Samuel Beckett’s work for special acknowledgement. His rendering of the Éluard and Breton poems in particular is charactizable only in superlatives” (“Editorially: By the Way of Introducing This Surrealist Number,” 5.1 [September 1932] 6).

Creator

Beckett, Samuel

Publisher

Paris : Edward W. Titus

Date

1932: September

Contributor

Titus, Edward

Relation

PR6003.E284 E4 1936: Thorns of thunder : selected poems / Paul Éluard

1929-1940 exhibit case
To George Reavey, 9 January 1936: "Coffey left here I think last Friday . . . I think he got my copy of the This Quarter in question. I said I was not keen on doing more translations, but would if necessary."*

*Coffey had taken SB's copy of This Quarter 5:1 (September 1932) in which SB's translations of Paul Eluard's poems . . . had appeared (86-98). Reavey was preparing Thorns of Thunder, a collection of Eluard's poems in translation, which included SB's translations already published in This Quarter; Reavey had apparently asked, through Coffey, if SB would prepare more.

-The Letters of Samuel Beckett: 1929-1940, pp. 295-297

Format

23 cm.
jpeg; 300 ppi

Language

English

Type

Periodical

Identifier

This-Quarter-cover-1645551-PM.jpeg; This-Quarter-1645551-86-PM.jpg

Extent

13 pages (Beckett's contributions)
2 scans

Files

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Citation

Beckett, Samuel, “This Quarter: Surrealist Number,” WUSTL Digital Gateway Image Collections & Exhibitions, accessed April 26, 2024, http://omeka.wustl.edu/omeka/items/show/14855.