Samuel Beckett Archives

Samuel Beckett

Such a Schemozzle

by Sam Sacks,

The beauty of John McGahern’s prose

Nothing to be Done

From a letter written in 1973 by Samuel Beckett to Estelle Parsons, an actress who had requested his thoughts on staging Waiting for Godot with Shelley Winters. The letter appears…

Say Watt?

by Samuel Beckett,

From a letter by Samuel Beckett, dated February 14, 1957, responding with what he called “heart-felt sympathy” to queries from a German translator of his 1935 poetry collection Echo’s Bones…