Description
Notebook Beckett used to draft Bing.
Frustrated by the "intractable complexities" in Le dépeupleur, Beckett laid the text aside in favor of a shorter, simpler prose piece that could be regarded as the "result or miniaturization of Le dépeupleur." Washington University holds the notebook (seen here) and 10 typescripts he used to draft the work, as well as autograph and typescript drafts toward the English translation, Ping.
Relation
MSS008 Box 2 Folder 25: Bing, 1966, typescript, 21 pages. 10 items. Box 3 Folder 58: Ping, 1966, autograph and typescript, 10 pages. 3 items.
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 Fletcher, 28 December 1968, referring to corrected proofs of Bing he was returning: "I have nothing with me here, but have corrected as best I could, fear in both margins through inadvertence." - The Letters of Samuel Beckett: 1966-1989, note on p. 138