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Shakespeare , William:
The Works of William Shakspeare
London /New York :
Frederick Warne and Co,
n.d.
The "Universal" Edition
Read: by January 1924 (Henry V), by October 1923 (The Merchant of Venice), by January 1924 (A Midsummer Night's Dream), by January 1925 (The Merchant of Venice), by May 1924 (Julius Caesar), March 1931(Julius Caesar), by May 1924 (Coriolanus), by October 1924 (As You Like It), by October 1924 (Twelfth Night), by January 1925 (The Tempest), November 1928 (The Tempest), by May 1925 (Richard III), by May 1925 (Romeo and Juliet), March 1931 (Romeo and Juliet), by October 1925 (Macbeth, by October 1925 (Hamlet), March 1931 (Anthony and Cleopatra), March 1931 (Othello), March 1931 (Richard II), March 1931 (Troilus and Cressida)Source:
TCD College Calendar
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Racine , Jean:
Théâtre complet, avec des remarques littéraires et un
choix de notes classiques par M. Félix Lemaistre; précédé d'une notice sur la vie et
le théâtre de Racine par L.-S. Auger
Paris :
Garnier Frères,
n.d. [1863]
Read: by January 1924 (Andromaque), by April 1926 (Phèdre), by April 1926 (Bérénice), by April 1926 (Athalie), by October 1927, October 1931 (Britannicus, Bajazet, Mithridate)Uncertain: the handwriting and the brevity of the remarks do not resemble young Beckett's student marginalia. Knowing Beckett's deep engagement with Racine's works, it seems likely that this is not the edition he used as a student or later as a lecturer.
Source:
TCD College Calendar
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Rudmose-Brown , T. B.:
A Short History of French literature: From the Beginnings to 1900
Dublin :
Educational Company of Ireland,
1923
Read: by January 1924 (17th century), by May 1924 (17th century), by October 1924 (18th century), by January 1925 (19th century), by April 1925 (19th century), by January 1926 (Introduction, The Middle Ages, 16th century, 17th century)Source:
TCD College Calendar
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Shakespeare , William:
The Works of William Shakspeare
London /New York :
Frederick Warne and Co,
n.d.
The "Universal" Edition
Read: by January 1924 (Henry V), by October 1923 (The Merchant of Venice), by January 1924 (A Midsummer Night's Dream), by January 1925 (The Merchant of Venice), by May 1924 (Julius Caesar), March 1931(Julius Caesar), by May 1924 (Coriolanus), by October 1924 (As You Like It), by October 1924 (Twelfth Night), by January 1925 (The Tempest), November 1928 (The Tempest), by May 1925 (Richard III), by May 1925 (Romeo and Juliet), March 1931 (Romeo and Juliet), by October 1925 (Macbeth, by October 1925 (Hamlet), March 1931 (Anthony and Cleopatra), March 1931 (Othello), March 1931 (Richard II), March 1931 (Troilus and Cressida)Source:
TCD College Calendar
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·
Rudmose-Brown , T. B.:
A Short History of French literature: From the Beginnings to 1900
Dublin :
Educational Company of Ireland,
1923
Read: by January 1924 (17th century), by May 1924 (17th century), by October 1924 (18th century), by January 1925 (19th century), by April 1925 (19th century), by January 1926 (Introduction, The Middle Ages, 16th century, 17th century)Source:
TCD College Calendar
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Shakespeare , William:
The Works of William Shakspeare
London /New York :
Frederick Warne and Co,
n.d.
The "Universal" Edition
Read: by January 1924 (Henry V), by October 1923 (The Merchant of Venice), by January 1924 (A Midsummer Night's Dream), by January 1925 (The Merchant of Venice), by May 1924 (Julius Caesar), March 1931(Julius Caesar), by May 1924 (Coriolanus), by October 1924 (As You Like It), by October 1924 (Twelfth Night), by January 1925 (The Tempest), November 1928 (The Tempest), by May 1925 (Richard III), by May 1925 (Romeo and Juliet), March 1931 (Romeo and Juliet), by October 1925 (Macbeth, by October 1925 (Hamlet), March 1931 (Anthony and Cleopatra), March 1931 (Othello), March 1931 (Richard II), March 1931 (Troilus and Cressida)Source:
TCD College Calendar
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·
Rudmose-Brown , T. B.:
A Short History of French literature: From the Beginnings to 1900
Dublin :
Educational Company of Ireland,
1923
Read: by January 1924 (17th century), by May 1924 (17th century), by October 1924 (18th century), by January 1925 (19th century), by April 1925 (19th century), by January 1926 (Introduction, The Middle Ages, 16th century, 17th century)Source:
TCD College Calendar
·
Shakespeare , William:
The Works of William Shakspeare
London /New York :
Frederick Warne and Co,
n.d.
The "Universal" Edition
Read: by January 1924 (Henry V), by October 1923 (The Merchant of Venice), by January 1924 (A Midsummer Night's Dream), by January 1925 (The Merchant of Venice), by May 1924 (Julius Caesar), March 1931(Julius Caesar), by May 1924 (Coriolanus), by October 1924 (As You Like It), by October 1924 (Twelfth Night), by January 1925 (The Tempest), November 1928 (The Tempest), by May 1925 (Richard III), by May 1925 (Romeo and Juliet), March 1931 (Romeo and Juliet), by October 1925 (Macbeth, by October 1925 (Hamlet), March 1931 (Anthony and Cleopatra), March 1931 (Othello), March 1931 (Richard II), March 1931 (Troilus and Cressida)Source:
TCD College Calendar
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Rudmose-Brown , T. B.:
A Short History of French literature: From the Beginnings to 1900
Dublin :
Educational Company of Ireland,
1923
Read: by January 1924 (17th century), by May 1924 (17th century), by October 1924 (18th century), by January 1925 (19th century), by April 1925 (19th century), by January 1926 (Introduction, The Middle Ages, 16th century, 17th century)Source:
TCD College Calendar
·
Shakespeare , William:
The Works of William Shakspeare
London /New York :
Frederick Warne and Co,
n.d.
The "Universal" Edition
Read: by January 1924 (Henry V), by October 1923 (The Merchant of Venice), by January 1924 (A Midsummer Night's Dream), by January 1925 (The Merchant of Venice), by May 1924 (Julius Caesar), March 1931(Julius Caesar), by May 1924 (Coriolanus), by October 1924 (As You Like It), by October 1924 (Twelfth Night), by January 1925 (The Tempest), November 1928 (The Tempest), by May 1925 (Richard III), by May 1925 (Romeo and Juliet), March 1931 (Romeo and Juliet), by October 1925 (Macbeth, by October 1925 (Hamlet), March 1931 (Anthony and Cleopatra), March 1931 (Othello), March 1931 (Richard II), March 1931 (Troilus and Cressida)Source:
TCD College Calendar
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·
Rudmose-Brown , T. B.:
A Short History of French literature: From the Beginnings to 1900
Dublin :
Educational Company of Ireland,
1923
Read: by January 1924 (17th century), by May 1924 (17th century), by October 1924 (18th century), by January 1925 (19th century), by April 1925 (19th century), by January 1926 (Introduction, The Middle Ages, 16th century, 17th century)Source:
TCD College Calendar
·
Shakespeare , William:
The Works of William Shakspeare
London /New York :
Frederick Warne and Co,
n.d.
The "Universal" Edition
Read: by January 1924 (Henry V), by October 1923 (The Merchant of Venice), by January 1924 (A Midsummer Night's Dream), by January 1925 (The Merchant of Venice), by May 1924 (Julius Caesar), March 1931(Julius Caesar), by May 1924 (Coriolanus), by October 1924 (As You Like It), by October 1924 (Twelfth Night), by January 1925 (The Tempest), November 1928 (The Tempest), by May 1925 (Richard III), by May 1925 (Romeo and Juliet), March 1931 (Romeo and Juliet), by October 1925 (Macbeth, by October 1925 (Hamlet), March 1931 (Anthony and Cleopatra), March 1931 (Othello), March 1931 (Richard II), March 1931 (Troilus and Cressida)Source:
TCD College Calendar
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Shakespeare , William:
The Works of William Shakspeare
London /New York :
Frederick Warne and Co,
n.d.
The "Universal" Edition
Read: by January 1924 (Henry V), by October 1923 (The Merchant of Venice), by January 1924 (A Midsummer Night's Dream), by January 1925 (The Merchant of Venice), by May 1924 (Julius Caesar), March 1931(Julius Caesar), by May 1924 (Coriolanus), by October 1924 (As You Like It), by October 1924 (Twelfth Night), by January 1925 (The Tempest), November 1928 (The Tempest), by May 1925 (Richard III), by May 1925 (Romeo and Juliet), March 1931 (Romeo and Juliet), by October 1925 (Macbeth, by October 1925 (Hamlet), March 1931 (Anthony and Cleopatra), March 1931 (Othello), March 1931 (Richard II), March 1931 (Troilus and Cressida)Source:
TCD College Calendar
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Dante Alighieri :
La divina Commedia
Florence :
Adriano Salani,
1921
Read: by January 1926 (Inferno), by May 1926 (Purgatory), by October 1926 (Paradise), Spring 1929, Spring 1931Daniela Caselli identifies the edition used by Beckett at TCD as the famous "beslubbered" Salani edition with comments by Enrico Bianchi published in 1921 (or its 1922 re-print) that features in Dream of Fair to middling Women (2000, 1). The decisive proof in favour of the Salani edition is the diagram of Purgatory which Beckett draws in his notebook on page 87. This diagram is identical to the one in Beckett's personal copy of Salani, where it is also accompanied by a distribution of purgatorial sins. This structure can lead one to infer that the plan of Inferno at the beginning of the TCD notebook and the distribution of sins on page 31 also originate from the Salani edition. Beckett cherished his personal copy until his death in the retirement home in Paris. Since then it has been in the hands of a private collector, which makes it impossible for the moment to investigate Beckett's valuable reading traces.
Source:
Daniela Caselli, "'The Florentia Edition in the Ignoble Salani Collection': A Textual Comparison", in Journal of Beckett Studies 9 (2000).
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Lanson , Gustave:
Histoire de la littérature française
[1895]
Read: by January 1926 (Part III: Le 16ème siècle: Rabelais, Montaigne, Ronsard, Régnier), by April 1926 (Part IV: Le 17ème siècle: Balzac, Descartes, Corneille, Pascal, Molière, Racine), by October 1926 (Part V: Le 18ème siècle: Voltaire, Marivaux, Diderot, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Beaumarchais)Source:
TCD College Calendar
·
Rudmose-Brown , T. B.:
A Short History of French literature: From the Beginnings to 1900
Dublin :
Educational Company of Ireland,
1923
Read: by January 1924 (17th century), by May 1924 (17th century), by October 1924 (18th century), by January 1925 (19th century), by April 1925 (19th century), by January 1926 (Introduction, The Middle Ages, 16th century, 17th century)Source:
TCD College Calendar
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Dante Alighieri :
La divina Commedia
Florence :
Adriano Salani,
1921
Read: by January 1926 (Inferno), by May 1926 (Purgatory), by October 1926 (Paradise), Spring 1929, Spring 1931Daniela Caselli identifies the edition used by Beckett at TCD as the famous "beslubbered" Salani edition with comments by Enrico Bianchi published in 1921 (or its 1922 re-print) that features in Dream of Fair to middling Women (2000, 1). The decisive proof in favour of the Salani edition is the diagram of Purgatory which Beckett draws in his notebook on page 87. This diagram is identical to the one in Beckett's personal copy of Salani, where it is also accompanied by a distribution of purgatorial sins. This structure can lead one to infer that the plan of Inferno at the beginning of the TCD notebook and the distribution of sins on page 31 also originate from the Salani edition. Beckett cherished his personal copy until his death in the retirement home in Paris. Since then it has been in the hands of a private collector, which makes it impossible for the moment to investigate Beckett's valuable reading traces.
Source:
Daniela Caselli, "'The Florentia Edition in the Ignoble Salani Collection': A Textual Comparison", in Journal of Beckett Studies 9 (2000).
·
Lanson , Gustave:
Histoire de la littérature française
[1895]
Read: by January 1926 (Part III: Le 16ème siècle: Rabelais, Montaigne, Ronsard, Régnier), by April 1926 (Part IV: Le 17ème siècle: Balzac, Descartes, Corneille, Pascal, Molière, Racine), by October 1926 (Part V: Le 18ème siècle: Voltaire, Marivaux, Diderot, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Beaumarchais)Source:
TCD College Calendar
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Racine , Jean:
Théâtre complet, avec des remarques littéraires et un
choix de notes classiques par M. Félix Lemaistre; précédé d'une notice sur la vie et
le théâtre de Racine par L.-S. Auger
Paris :
Garnier Frères,
n.d. [1863]
Read: by January 1924 (Andromaque), by April 1926 (Phèdre), by April 1926 (Bérénice), by April 1926 (Athalie), by October 1927, October 1931 (Britannicus, Bajazet, Mithridate)Uncertain: the handwriting and the brevity of the remarks do not resemble young Beckett's student marginalia. Knowing Beckett's deep engagement with Racine's works, it seems likely that this is not the edition he used as a student or later as a lecturer.
Source:
TCD College Calendar
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Dante Alighieri :
La divina Commedia
Florence :
Adriano Salani,
1921
Read: by January 1926 (Inferno), by May 1926 (Purgatory), by October 1926 (Paradise), Spring 1929, Spring 1931Daniela Caselli identifies the edition used by Beckett at TCD as the famous "beslubbered" Salani edition with comments by Enrico Bianchi published in 1921 (or its 1922 re-print) that features in Dream of Fair to middling Women (2000, 1). The decisive proof in favour of the Salani edition is the diagram of Purgatory which Beckett draws in his notebook on page 87. This diagram is identical to the one in Beckett's personal copy of Salani, where it is also accompanied by a distribution of purgatorial sins. This structure can lead one to infer that the plan of Inferno at the beginning of the TCD notebook and the distribution of sins on page 31 also originate from the Salani edition. Beckett cherished his personal copy until his death in the retirement home in Paris. Since then it has been in the hands of a private collector, which makes it impossible for the moment to investigate Beckett's valuable reading traces.
Source:
Daniela Caselli, "'The Florentia Edition in the Ignoble Salani Collection': A Textual Comparison", in Journal of Beckett Studies 9 (2000).
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Lanson , Gustave:
Histoire de la littérature française
[1895]
Read: by January 1926 (Part III: Le 16ème siècle: Rabelais, Montaigne, Ronsard, Régnier), by April 1926 (Part IV: Le 17ème siècle: Balzac, Descartes, Corneille, Pascal, Molière, Racine), by October 1926 (Part V: Le 18ème siècle: Voltaire, Marivaux, Diderot, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Beaumarchais)Source:
TCD College Calendar
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Proust , Marcel:
à la recherche du temps perdu: Du Côté de chez Swann *
Paris :
éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1928
Read: by October 1927, Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett first read part of volume I in a virtual edition for the final examination at TCD in October 1927 (Moderatorship). Although signed in student fashion "S. B. Beckett", the volume that opens the Nouvelle révue française collection was probably only acquired early in 1928 together with the other fifteen volumes. A letter to Thomas MacGreevy dated summer 1929 reveals Beckett having finished reading the first volume, Du côté de chez Swann , finding it "strangely uneven" (LSB I , 11). Beckett wrote to MacGreevy on 7 August 1930 that he had started re-reading à la recherche du temps perdu (Pilling 2006, 26).
Sources:
TCD College CalendarThe Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
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Racine , Jean:
Théâtre complet, avec des remarques littéraires et un
choix de notes classiques par M. Félix Lemaistre; précédé d'une notice sur la vie et
le théâtre de Racine par L.-S. Auger
Paris :
Garnier Frères,
n.d. [1863]
Read: by January 1924 (Andromaque), by April 1926 (Phèdre), by April 1926 (Bérénice), by April 1926 (Athalie), by October 1927, October 1931 (Britannicus, Bajazet, Mithridate)Uncertain: the handwriting and the brevity of the remarks do not resemble young Beckett's student marginalia. Knowing Beckett's deep engagement with Racine's works, it seems likely that this is not the edition he used as a student or later as a lecturer.
Source:
TCD College Calendar
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Stendhal , [Henri Beyle]:
Le Rouge et le noir
Paris :
Garnier,
1925
Read: by October 1927, December 1931Stendhal's Le Rouge et le noir , which Beckett had bought in November 1926, features on the list for the Moderatorship exam (Pilling 2006, 13). Beckett mentioned re-reading Le Rouge et le noir in a letter dated 20 December 1931 (LSB I 100).
Sources:
TCD College CalendarA Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 13.The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 100.
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Shakespeare , William:
The Works of William Shakspeare
London /New York :
Frederick Warne and Co,
n.d.
The "Universal" Edition
Read: by January 1924 (Henry V), by October 1923 (The Merchant of Venice), by January 1924 (A Midsummer Night's Dream), by January 1925 (The Merchant of Venice), by May 1924 (Julius Caesar), March 1931(Julius Caesar), by May 1924 (Coriolanus), by October 1924 (As You Like It), by October 1924 (Twelfth Night), by January 1925 (The Tempest), November 1928 (The Tempest), by May 1925 (Richard III), by May 1925 (Romeo and Juliet), March 1931 (Romeo and Juliet), by October 1925 (Macbeth, by October 1925 (Hamlet), March 1931 (Anthony and Cleopatra), March 1931 (Othello), March 1931 (Richard II), March 1931 (Troilus and Cressida)Source:
TCD College Calendar
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Dante Alighieri :
La divina Commedia
Florence :
Adriano Salani,
1921
Read: by January 1926 (Inferno), by May 1926 (Purgatory), by October 1926 (Paradise), Spring 1929, Spring 1931Daniela Caselli identifies the edition used by Beckett at TCD as the famous "beslubbered" Salani edition with comments by Enrico Bianchi published in 1921 (or its 1922 re-print) that features in Dream of Fair to middling Women (2000, 1). The decisive proof in favour of the Salani edition is the diagram of Purgatory which Beckett draws in his notebook on page 87. This diagram is identical to the one in Beckett's personal copy of Salani, where it is also accompanied by a distribution of purgatorial sins. This structure can lead one to infer that the plan of Inferno at the beginning of the TCD notebook and the distribution of sins on page 31 also originate from the Salani edition. Beckett cherished his personal copy until his death in the retirement home in Paris. Since then it has been in the hands of a private collector, which makes it impossible for the moment to investigate Beckett's valuable reading traces.
Source:
Daniela Caselli, "'The Florentia Edition in the Ignoble Salani Collection': A Textual Comparison", in Journal of Beckett Studies 9 (2000).
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Proust , Marcel:
à la recherche du temps perdu: Du Côté de chez Swann **
Paris :
éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1926
Read: Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett 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:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
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Proust , Marcel:
à la recherche du temps perdu: Albertine disparue *
Paris :
éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1926
Read: Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett 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:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
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Proust , Marcel:
à la recherche du temps perdu: Albertine disparue **
Paris :
éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1926
Read: Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett 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:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
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Proust , Marcel:
à la recherche du temps perdu: Le Côté de Guermantes I
Paris :
éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1927
Read: Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett 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:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
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Proust , Marcel:
à la recherche du temps perdu: Le Côté de Guermantes II Sodome et Gomorrhe I
Paris :
éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1927
Read: Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett 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:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
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Proust , Marcel:
à la recherche du temps perdu: Sodome et Gomorrhe II *
Paris :
éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1927
Read: Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett 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:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
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Proust , Marcel:
à la recherche du temps perdu: Sodome et Gomorrhe II **
Paris :
éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1927
Read: Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett 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:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
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Proust , Marcel:
à la recherche du temps perdu: Sodome et Gomorrhe II ***
Paris :
éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1927
Read: Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett 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:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
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Proust , Marcel:
à la recherche du temps perdu: La Prisonnière (Sodome et Gomorrhe III) *
Paris :
éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1927
Read: Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett 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:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
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Proust , Marcel:
à la recherche du temps perdu: La Prisonnière (Sodome et Gomorrhe III) **
Paris :
éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1927
Read: Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett 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:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
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Proust , Marcel:
à la recherche du temps perdu: Du Côté de chez Swann *
Paris :
éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1928
Read: by October 1927, Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett first read part of volume I in a virtual edition for the final examination at TCD in October 1927 (Moderatorship). Although signed in student fashion "S. B. Beckett", the volume that opens the Nouvelle révue française collection was probably only acquired early in 1928 together with the other fifteen volumes. A letter to Thomas MacGreevy dated summer 1929 reveals Beckett having finished reading the first volume, Du côté de chez Swann , finding it "strangely uneven" (LSB I , 11). Beckett wrote to MacGreevy on 7 August 1930 that he had started re-reading à la recherche du temps perdu (Pilling 2006, 26).
Sources:
TCD College CalendarThe Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
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Proust , Marcel:
à la recherche du temps perdu: à l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs **
Paris :
éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1929
Read: Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett 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). The fourth volume contains a marginal note ("Mail Boat - Aug 1928") that could be mistaken for the date when Beckett was reading that passage. The note actually indicates that Beckett retrospectively associated the narrator's transition from an "ancien moi" to a "moi différent" with his own experience of moving to continental Europe. Nevertheless, the reading itself took place in 1929.
Sources:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
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Proust , Marcel:
à la recherche du temps perdu: à l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs ***
Paris :
éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1929
Read: Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett 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:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
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Proust , Marcel:
à la recherche du temps perdu: Le Temps retrouvé *
Paris :
éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1929
Read: Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett 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:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
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Proust , Marcel:
à la recherche du temps perdu: Le Temps retrouvé **
Paris :
éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1929
Read: Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett 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:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
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Dostoievski , Fjodor:
Le Crime et le châtiment
Paris :
Librairie Plon,
[1884]
35th ed.
Read: August 1930Beckett may have read Dostoevsky's Le Crime et le châtiment by that time, as Van Hulle and Nixon note (2013, 123). The copy still present in Beckett's library bears no date, nor annotations, but could be a plausible first title by the Russian author for him.
Sources:
Dirk Van Hulle and Mark Nixon, Samuel Beckett's Library , p. 123.The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 41.
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Proust , Marcel:
à la recherche du temps perdu: Du Côté de chez Swann **
Paris :
éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1926
Read: Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett 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:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
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Proust , Marcel:
à la recherche du temps perdu: Albertine disparue *
Paris :
éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1926
Read: Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett 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:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
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Proust , Marcel:
à la recherche du temps perdu: Albertine disparue **
Paris :
éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1926
Read: Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett 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:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
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Proust , Marcel:
à la recherche du temps perdu: Le Côté de Guermantes I
Paris :
éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1927
Read: Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett 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:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
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Proust , Marcel:
à la recherche du temps perdu: Le Côté de Guermantes II Sodome et Gomorrhe I
Paris :
éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1927
Read: Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett 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:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
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Proust , Marcel:
à la recherche du temps perdu: Sodome et Gomorrhe II *
Paris :
éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1927
Read: Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett 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:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
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Proust , Marcel:
à la recherche du temps perdu: Sodome et Gomorrhe II **
Paris :
éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1927
Read: Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett 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:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
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Proust , Marcel:
à la recherche du temps perdu: Sodome et Gomorrhe II ***
Paris :
éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1927
Read: Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett 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:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
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Proust , Marcel:
à la recherche du temps perdu: La Prisonnière (Sodome et Gomorrhe III) *
Paris :
éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1927
Read: Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett 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:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
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Proust , Marcel:
à la recherche du temps perdu: La Prisonnière (Sodome et Gomorrhe III) **
Paris :
éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1927
Read: Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett 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:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
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Proust , Marcel:
à la recherche du temps perdu: Du Côté de chez Swann *
Paris :
éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1928
Read: by October 1927, Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett first read part of volume I in a virtual edition for the final examination at TCD in October 1927 (Moderatorship). Although signed in student fashion "S. B. Beckett", the volume that opens the Nouvelle révue française collection was probably only acquired early in 1928 together with the other fifteen volumes. A letter to Thomas MacGreevy dated summer 1929 reveals Beckett having finished reading the first volume, Du côté de chez Swann , finding it "strangely uneven" (LSB I , 11). Beckett wrote to MacGreevy on 7 August 1930 that he had started re-reading à la recherche du temps perdu (Pilling 2006, 26).
Sources:
TCD College CalendarThe Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
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Proust , Marcel:
à la recherche du temps perdu: à l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs **
Paris :
éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1929
Read: Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett 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). The fourth volume contains a marginal note ("Mail Boat - Aug 1928") that could be mistaken for the date when Beckett was reading that passage. The note actually indicates that Beckett retrospectively associated the narrator's transition from an "ancien moi" to a "moi différent" with his own experience of moving to continental Europe. Nevertheless, the reading itself took place in 1929.
Sources:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
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Proust , Marcel:
à la recherche du temps perdu: à l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs ***
Paris :
éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1929
Read: Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett 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:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
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Proust , Marcel:
à la recherche du temps perdu: Le Temps retrouvé *
Paris :
éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1929
Read: Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett 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:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
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Proust , Marcel:
à la recherche du temps perdu: Le Temps retrouvé **
Paris :
éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1929
Read: Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett 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:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
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Schopenhauer , Arthur:
The World as Will and Idea
London :
Routledge and Kegan Paul,
[1883-1886]
Read: August 1930The edition of Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung that Beckett read in the summer of 1930, to prepare for his essay on Marcel Proust, has been identified as the English translation by R. B. Haldane and J. Kemp (Ackerley and Gontarski, The Faber Companion to Samuel Beckett , p. 510). In a letter to Thomas MacGreevy of 25 August 1930 Beckett mentioned reading a specific chapter in Schopenhauer's book: 'His chapter in Will & Representation on music is amusing & applies to P., who certainly read it [(]It is alluded to incidentally in A. La R.)' (LSB I 43). Although Beckett referred to the translation as 'Will & Representation' in his letter, not 'Will and Idea' as the book was actually called, he must have been reading the Haldane and Kemp translation, since no other English version was available until E. F. J. Payne's 1958 translation, entitled 'The World as Will and Representation'. In their Translator's Preface, Haldane and Kemp explained that '"Vorstellung" has been rendered by "idea," in preference to "representation," which is neither accurate, intelligible, nor elegant'. Apparently, Beckett - and later E. F. J. Payne - disagreed. Pilling has pinpointed Schopenhauer's chapter on music as 'the fifty-second chapter of volume i [...] with account taken also of chapter 39 of volume ii ("On the Metaphysics of Music")' (John Pilling, 'Proust and Schopenhauer: Music and Shadows', in Samuel Beckett and Music , ed. Mary Bryden, p. 173). Seven years later, in a letter to Thomas MacGreevy of 21 September 1937, Beckett stated that the only thing he could read during his recent illness was Schopenhauer because he is 'a philosopher that can be read like a poet' (LSB I 550). Here he was probably referring to the German Sämtliche Werke in six volumes, bought on his trek through Germany in 1936 and 1937. Contrary to the English translation by Haldane and Kemp, this German edition of Schopenhauer's works has been preserved in Beckett's personal library.
Source:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 43.
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Malraux , Pierre:
La Voie royale
[1930]
Read: after January 1931According to John Pilling Beckett bought two novels by Malraux that he wanted to read at Pelorson's recommendation (2006, 29). On 25 January, he wrote to McGreevy that he had "had a peer at the opening of [La Voie royale ], & it looked promising" (LSB I 62), although it is not certain whether he read them then or at a later time, if at all.
Sources:
John Pilling, A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 29.The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 62.
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Shakespeare , William:
The Works of William Shakspeare
London /New York :
Frederick Warne and Co,
n.d.
The "Universal" Edition
Read: by January 1924 (Henry V), by October 1923 (The Merchant of Venice), by January 1924 (A Midsummer Night's Dream), by January 1925 (The Merchant of Venice), by May 1924 (Julius Caesar), March 1931(Julius Caesar), by May 1924 (Coriolanus), by October 1924 (As You Like It), by October 1924 (Twelfth Night), by January 1925 (The Tempest), November 1928 (The Tempest), by May 1925 (Richard III), by May 1925 (Romeo and Juliet), March 1931 (Romeo and Juliet), by October 1925 (Macbeth, by October 1925 (Hamlet), March 1931 (Anthony and Cleopatra), March 1931 (Othello), March 1931 (Richard II), March 1931 (Troilus and Cressida)Source:
TCD College Calendar
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Dante Alighieri :
La divina Commedia
Florence :
Adriano Salani,
1921
Read: by January 1926 (Inferno), by May 1926 (Purgatory), by October 1926 (Paradise), Spring 1929, Spring 1931Daniela Caselli identifies the edition used by Beckett at TCD as the famous "beslubbered" Salani edition with comments by Enrico Bianchi published in 1921 (or its 1922 re-print) that features in Dream of Fair to middling Women (2000, 1). The decisive proof in favour of the Salani edition is the diagram of Purgatory which Beckett draws in his notebook on page 87. This diagram is identical to the one in Beckett's personal copy of Salani, where it is also accompanied by a distribution of purgatorial sins. This structure can lead one to infer that the plan of Inferno at the beginning of the TCD notebook and the distribution of sins on page 31 also originate from the Salani edition. Beckett cherished his personal copy until his death in the retirement home in Paris. Since then it has been in the hands of a private collector, which makes it impossible for the moment to investigate Beckett's valuable reading traces.
Source:
Daniela Caselli, "'The Florentia Edition in the Ignoble Salani Collection': A Textual Comparison", in Journal of Beckett Studies 9 (2000).
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Lawrence , D. H.:
Apocalypse
Florence :
G. Orioni,
[1931]
Read: August 1931In August 1931 Charles Prentice sent Beckett D. H. Lawrence's Apocalypse , edited by Richard Aldington (LSB I 82). It is, however, uncertain when Beckett actually finished reading Apocalypse . This specific edition had been published in June 1931, and he had probably received it straight away, since by 15 August he wrote to Prentice "Forgive me for keeping Apocalypse so long". Nevertheless, he already gave Prentice his initial impressions: "It yielded so much on the first reading that I put it aside relying on your indulgence" (LSB I 82).
Source:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 82.
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Racine , Jean:
Théâtre complet, avec des remarques littéraires et un
choix de notes classiques par M. Félix Lemaistre; précédé d'une notice sur la vie et
le théâtre de Racine par L.-S. Auger
Paris :
Garnier Frères,
n.d. [1863]
Read: by January 1924 (Andromaque), by April 1926 (Phèdre), by April 1926 (Bérénice), by April 1926 (Athalie), by October 1927, October 1931 (Britannicus, Bajazet, Mithridate)Uncertain: the handwriting and the brevity of the remarks do not resemble young Beckett's student marginalia. Knowing Beckett's deep engagement with Racine's works, it seems likely that this is not the edition he used as a student or later as a lecturer.
Source:
TCD College Calendar
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Stendhal , [Henri Beyle]:
Le Rouge et le noir
Paris :
Garnier,
1925
Read: by October 1927, December 1931Stendhal's Le Rouge et le noir , which Beckett had bought in November 1926, features on the list for the Moderatorship exam (Pilling 2006, 13). Beckett mentioned re-reading Le Rouge et le noir in a letter dated 20 December 1931 (LSB I 100).
Sources:
TCD College CalendarA Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 13.The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 100.