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Zusatztext Pilling's careful excavation of manuscript materials is wholly in line with the aims of this series which stress primary and archival sources as contexts for major (and minor) works of Modernism? the volume under review! will prove indispensable for future scholars of what Jean-Michel Rabaté once termed 'Beckett avant Beckett'. Informationen zum Autor John Pilling is Emeritus Professor of English and European Literature at the University of Reading! UK. He edited the Journal of Beckett Studies for ten years! serves on the editorial board of Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui . and has written or edited numerous books! articles! symposia! and review essays on Beckett for more than thirty years. His special interest and expertise currently is in every aspect of Beckett's life and work in the 1930s. Klappentext An in-depth study of Samuel Beckett's first published book of fiction. An in-depth study of Samuel Beckett's first published book of fiction. Zusammenfassung A study of Samuel Beckett's first published book of fiction, "More Pricks Than Kicks". From its publishing history to why they were written, it reveals Beckett's conflicted feelings about the 'compromise' of writing short stories and his struggle to find a voice distinct from James Joyce, his friend and authority of the form. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements \ Preface \ 1. The Disruptive Intelligence \ 2. My sometime friend Belacqua \ 3. How it went in the world \ 4. The Statement of a Compromise\ 5. Notesnatchings: Allusions! Borrowings and Self-Plagiarisms in More Pricks Than Kicks \ 6. Addenda \ Bibliography \ Index
