Proust
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Title
Proust
Subject
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989. Proust
Description
First edition of Beckett's critical study of Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu. The publisher, Charles Prentice, was the first to "discover" Beckett, and became a leading early supporter who also published More Pricks Than Kicks.
Full illustrated paper-covered boards with dust jacket. Accompanied by a prospectus, originally laid in. Signed by Samuel Beckett on title page.
Creator
Beckett, Samuel
Publisher
London : Chatto & Windus
Date
1931
Contributor
Prentice, Charles
Relation
Special Collections copy 2 signed by Howard Nemerov
1929-1940 exhibit case
To Thomas McGreevy, 11 March 1931: "A thousand thanks for all you say about my Proust. . . . After reading your appreciation of that essay I know that it is worth more than I thought. I read the book through quickly and really wondered what I was talking about. . . . I feel it tied somehow on to Proust, on to his tail board, with odds & ends of words, like bundles of grass[,] jack in the boxing under a kite. Not that I care. I don't want to be a professor (it[']s almost a pleasure to contemplate the mess of this job)." -The Letters of Samuel Beckett: 1929-1940, pp. 71-72
Format
19 cm.
300 ppi; jpeg
Language
English
Type
Book
Identifier
Beckett-Proust-titlepage-with-inscription-3143120-PM.jpeg; Beckett-Proust-cover-3143120-PM.jpeg
Extent
72 pages
2 scans
Citation
Beckett, Samuel, “Proust,” WUSTL Digital Gateway Image Collections & Exhibitions, accessed April 17, 2024, http://omeka.wustl.edu/omeka/items/show/14848.
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