Comment dire
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Title
Comment dire
Subject
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989. Comment dire.
Description
Facsimile of the manuscript of Beckett's last original work, a poem he wrote in the hospital after regaining consciousness from a fall at home in July 1988. Translated to English as "What is the Word."
"'Comment dire" would be published in Libération on 1 June 1989. Both the French original and its English translation, "what is the word," are included in The Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett, ed. Lawlor and Pilling (226-229); the editors state that Beckett wrote "'Keep! for end,'" educing that this was 'as if to assert that "what is the word" would be his final word'" (474) -The Letters of Samuel Beckett: 1966-1989, p. 709
Libération
Creator
Beckett, Samuel
Publisher
Librairie Compagnie : Éditions de Minuit
Date
1989
Relation
1966-1989 exhibit case
To Louis Le Brocquy, 26 November 1988: "Here is what all that consternated scribble half boiled down to till it went off too soon (the boil)." -The Letters of Samuel Beckett: 1966-1989, p. 709
Removed from the Raymond Federman papers
Format
30 cm; 3 pages
jpeg; 300 ppi
Language
French
Type
Book
Identifier
comment-dire-01.tiff; comment-dire-02.tiff; comment-dire-03.tiff
Extent
4 unnumbered pages
Citation
Beckett, Samuel, “Comment dire,” WUSTL Digital Gateway Image Collections & Exhibitions, accessed April 16, 2024, http://omeka.wustl.edu/omeka/items/show/14908.
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