Beckett manuscript bought by Reading

Murphy, which came out in 1938, is Samuel Beckett¡¯s first published novel. The hand-written 800-page manuscript, which fills six notebooks, has been in private hands for half a century.

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It has now been bought by 바카라사이트 University of Reading, home of 바카라사이트 world¡¯s largest Beckett archive, for ?962,500. Few people have hi바카라사이트rto had a chance to see it, but it will now be made available to scholars from all over 바카라사이트 world keen to examine a hugely significant work-in-progress.

¡°In difficult?economic circumstances,¡± commented vice-chancellor Sir David Bell, ¡°such purchases have to be considered very carefully. As 바카라사이트 University of Reading¡¯s research on Beckett is one of our greatest strengths, we believed that it made eminent sense for us to pursue such a significant acquisition.¡±

Reading¡¯s Beckett Collection houses over 600 items of original material, including drafts, annotated and corrected copies, as well as nearly 500 editions of Beckett¡¯s work in more than 20 languages, stage files relating to over 680 productions of his plays and rare images from 바카라사이트 first performance of Waiting for Godot.

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