May 2012 Issue [Reviews] A great consolation Adjust Share The postwar unmaking of Samuel Beckett by Christopher Tayler, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF Tags 20th century Authors, French Book reviews Correspondence Daniel Gunn George Craig Lois More Overbeck Martha Fehsenfeld Samuel Beckett More from Christopher Tayler An Hallucinated Man The battles over T. S. Eliot’s legacy Deeds of Derring-Do Jon McGregor’s Antarctic experiment New Books “Not a great writer, though a pleasant one” was Vladimir Nabokov’s verdict on Ivan Turgenev, the first Russian novelist to make an impact abroad. Nabokov—who once complained about Henry James’s… Adjust Share