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Sat 03 Mar 2009Pieces of Beckett
LETTERS: The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1929-1940Edited by Martha Dow Fehsenfeld and Lois More Overbeck Cambridge University Press, 782pp, £30
IF SAMUEL BECKETT had died at the point where this volume ends, in June 1940 as France fell to the Germans, what work of his would we remember? Dante and the Lobster,the one perfect story in the otherwise erratic collection, More Pricks than Kicks(1934); a handful of inturned lyrics in the slim volume Echo’s Bones and Other Precipitates(1935); Murphy(1938), that very funny, erudite, wayward first published novel.
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