„Godot, love and loss”
James Knowlson (Profesor Emeritus, University of Reading)
The full version of this article is available in Polish in the printed version of Tekstualia and in the on-line subscription.
This is the first Polish translation of the full chapter of the only authorized biography of Samuel Beckett entitled Damned to Fame (originally published in English in 1996). The text concentrates on the publication details of Waiting for Godot and Beckett’s private life in the early 1950s. For example, the details concerning building the house in Ussy sur Marne in 1953 are revealed and Beckett’s cooperation with the magazine „Nouvelle revue française” and the publishing house „Merlin” is discussed. On private ground, the origins of Beckett’s intimate relationship with Pamela Mitchell are of much importance at the time.
The sample of Polish version of this article is available here: https://tekstualia.pl/pl/numery/beckettwpolsce
