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

Source

PR6003.E284 R5 1976 4o  

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.

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

Files

Rimbaud-Drunken-boat-cover-3161598-PM.jpg
Rimbaud-Drunken-boat-internal-pages-3161598-001-PM.jpg
Rimbaud-Drunken-boat-internal-pages-3161598-002-PM.jpg

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.