Drunken boat = Le bateau ivre
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Title
Drunken boat = Le bateau ivre
Subject
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989. Translations.
Description
Facsimile of Beckett's typescript translation of "Le Bateau Ivre" ("Drunken Boat") by Arthur Rimbaud. Edited, with an introducton, by James Knowlson and Felix Leakey. No. 24 of 100 signed by Beckett. The translation was commissioned by Edward TItus in 1932 but not published until this book.
"300 copies have been printed. Numbers 1-100 (in a special binding) are signed by Samuel Beckett." Spec copy 1. Special burlap binding with blue lettering on front cover. No. 24 [signed] Samuel Beckett.
Creator
Beckett, Samuel
Publisher
Reading : Whiteknights Press
Date
1976
Contributor
Knowlson, James
Leakey, Felix
Relation
1929-1940 exhibit case
To Thomas McGreevy, 28 November 1937: "Drunken Boat was to have been published in New Poetry; but I hear this has been deferred, to make room for an article by Ezra Pound."*
*Commissioned y Edward Titus, SB had translated Rimbaud's poem "Le Bateau ivre" as "The Drunken Boat" in 1932. It was to be published not in New Poetry, but in Contemporary Poetry and Prose. However, SB's translation was displaced by a letter that Ezra Pound had written against surrealism, "The Coward Surrealists" ... The following number of Contemporary Poetry and Prose was a short-story issue. The journal's final two numbers were issued as a quarterly in 1937.
-The Letters of Samuel Beckett: 1929-1940, p. 388 and 393.
*Commissioned y Edward Titus, SB had translated Rimbaud's poem "Le Bateau ivre" as "The Drunken Boat" in 1932. It was to be published not in New Poetry, but in Contemporary Poetry and Prose. However, SB's translation was displaced by a letter that Ezra Pound had written against surrealism, "The Coward Surrealists" ... The following number of Contemporary Poetry and Prose was a short-story issue. The journal's final two numbers were issued as a quarterly in 1937.
-The Letters of Samuel Beckett: 1929-1940, p. 388 and 393.
Format
35 cm.
jpeg; 300 ppi
Language
English
Type
Book
Identifier
Rimbaud-Drunken-boat-cover-3161598-PM.jpeg; Rimbaud-Drunken-boat-internal-pages-3161598-PM.jpeg; Rimbaud-Drunken-boat-internal-pages-3161598-001-PM.jpg; Rimbaud-Drunken-boat-internal-pages-3161598-002-PM.jpg
Extent
33 pages
3 scans
Citation
Beckett, Samuel, “Drunken boat = Le bateau ivre,” WUSTL Digital Gateway Image Collections & Exhibitions, accessed March 29, 2024, http://omeka.wustl.edu/omeka/items/show/14857.
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