Student library info ▿The Student library info pertains to the period when Beckett was a student at Trinity College Dublin (1923-1927) and a lecturer at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and TCD (1928-1931). It explains when he is thought to have acquired and read the book in question, based on his inscription, as well as various external sources including the official TCD college calendars, his 'Dream' Notebook, and his letters.Read: Summer 1929, Summer 1930.
Beckett most likely read the entire collection in the (late) summer of 1929, when he wrote to MacGreevy about having finished the first volume (LSB I, 11). On 7 August 1930, he wrote to MacGreevy that he had started re-reading À la recherche du temps perdu (Pilling 2006, 26).
Sources:
À la recherche du temps perdu:Le Côté de Guermantes I
Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1927
Location: Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Inscription:'9007677342'
Inscription:'P / Samuel Beckett // 254,045'
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Available scans ▿cover, inscription1, inscription2, tp, 11, 38, 43, 44, 45, 46, 60, 61, 63, 68, 76, 79, 82, 101, 102, 105, 110, 112, 122, 126, 127, 144, 162, 226, 245, 265, 266, 272, 273, colophon.
Sources:
À la recherche du temps perdu:
Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1927
Location: Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Inscription:
Inscription:
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Available scans ▿cover, inscription1, inscription2, tp, 11, 38, 43, 44, 45, 46, 60, 61, 63, 68, 76, 79, 82, 101, 102, 105, 110, 112, 122, 126, 127, 144, 162, 226, 245, 265, 266, 272, 273, colophon.