Description
Bing typed draft - one of ten toward the short story - with a note by Beckett
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 and 10 typescripts he used to draft the work, as well as autograph and typescript drafts toward the English translation, Ping.
Relation
MSS008 Box 4 Folder 77: Bing, 1966, typescript, 31 pages. 1 item. 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 Avigdor Arikha and Anne Atik, 13 September 1966: "I've handed in Blanc to Minuit. It's now called Bing. It will come out as a small book, like Imagination and Assez. Maybe in the L.N. first." -The Letters of Samuel Beckett: 1966-1989, pp. 40-41