Autograph notebook with Dis joe, Imagination Dead Imagine, Paroles et musique

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Title

Autograph notebook with Dis joe, Imagination Dead Imagine, Paroles et musique

Subject

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989. Eh Joe.

Description

Holograph draft of Beckett's French translation of his television play, Eh Joe, first written in English in 1965 and produced on the BBC in 1966, starring Jack MacGowran, whom Beckett had in mind when it was written. 

The play was Beckett's first foray into television, and as with Film, he used the camera's eye to study a solitary man in the throes of split consciousness.

Creator

Beckett, Samuel

Date

1965

Relation

This notebook also contains Imagination Dead Imagine and Paroles et musique translation drafts. Dis Joe is dated as "finished 3 Jul 1965" and Imagination Dead Imagine "Started 4 Jul 1965, finished 8 July 1965."

MSS008 Box 2 Folder 35: Dis joe, 1965, Autograph, typescript, typescript [carbon], 15 pages. 3 items. 

MSS008 Box 2 Folder 36: Eh, Joe, 1965, Autograph, typescript, typescript [carbon], 48 pages. 7 items.
MSS008 Box 2 Folder 37: Eh, Joe, 1965, Typescript [carbon], 6 pages. 1 item.
1957-1965 exhibit case
To Barbara Bray, 7 July 1965: "Finished first go at Dis Joe. Half way through Imagination . . . Putting in plenty of Gallicisms. Reads weird." -The Letters of Samuel Beckett: 1957-1965, p. 670

Format

notebook
jpeg; 300 ppi

Language

French

Type

Manuscript

Identifier

MSS008_III_Dis_Joe_00a.jpg; MSS008_III_Dis_Joe_01.jpg; MSS008_III_Dis_Joe_03.jpg; MSS008_III_Dis_Joe_05.jpg; MSS008_III_Dis_Joe_07.jpg; MSS008_III_Dis_Joe_09.jpg

Extent

30 pages

6 scans

Files

MSS008_III_Dis_Joe_00a.jpg
MSS008_III_Dis_Joe_01.jpg
MSS008_III_Dis_Joe_03.jpg
MSS008_III_Dis_Joe_05.jpg
MSS008_III_Dis_Joe_07.jpg
MSS008_III_Dis_Joe_09.jpg

Citation

Beckett, Samuel, “Autograph notebook with Dis joe, Imagination Dead Imagine, Paroles et musique,” WUSTL Digital Gateway Image Collections & Exhibitions, accessed April 24, 2024, http://omeka.wustl.edu/omeka/items/show/14890.