Description
In October-November 1965, Beckett worked intensively through nine successive drafts before he finally abandoned the piece, leaving it unpublished in its entirety until 1970. Washington University holds the manuscripts of all nine drafts, including two notebooks. He adapted part of the work into Bing and translated the work into English as The Lost Ones.
Relation
MSS008 Box 4 Folder 81: Le Dépeupleur (I) 1 item, 60 pages. Folder 82: Le Dépeupleur (II) 1 item, 41 pages
1966-1989 exhibit case
To John Calder, 23 November 1965: "Working laboriously. Prose in French. About 3000 words so far. Looks as if it might continue. May it for my little ever." -The Letters of Samuel Beckett: 1957-1965, p. 679
To Jocelyn Herbert, 7 December 1965: "Just back from a spell at Ussy, in the raging wind living mostly inside a cylinder of my imagining with 200 others." -The Letters of Samuel Beckett: 1957-1965, p. 682
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