Samuel Beckett
Bibliography
| Works in English |
| Whoroscope : Poem on Time. – Paris : Hours, 1930 |
| Proust. – London : Chatto & Windus, 1931 ; New York : Grove, 1957 |
| More Pricks Than Kicks. – London : Chatto & Windus, 1934 ; New York : Grove, 1970 |
| Echo’s Bones and Other Precipitates. – Paris : Europa, 1935 |
| Murphy. – London : Routledge, 1938 ; New York : Grove, 1957 |
| Watt. – Paris : Olympia, 1953 ; New York : Grove, 1959 ; London : Calder, 1963 |
| All That Fall. – New York : Grove, 1957 ; London : Faber & Faber, 1957 |
| From an Abandoned Work. – London : Faber, 1958 |
| Krapp’s Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces. – New York : Grove, 1960. – Comprises Krapp’s Last Tape, All That Fall, Embers, Act Without Words I, and Act Without Words II |
| Happy Days. – New York : Grove, 1961; London : Faber, 1962 |
| Poems in English. – London : Calder, 1961 ; New York : Grove, 1963 |
| Play and Two Short Pieces for Radio. – London : Faber, 1964 |
| Eh Joe and Other Writings. – London : Faber, 1967. – Comprises Eh Joe, Act Without Words II, and Film |
| Breath and Other Shorts. – London : Faber, 1972. – Comprises Breath, Come and Go, Act Without Words I, Act Without Words II, and From an Abandoned Work |
| Not I. – London : Faber, 1973 |
| That Time. – London : Faber, 1976 |
| Fizzles. – New York : Grove, 1976 |
| All Strange Away. – New York : Gotham Book Mart, 1976 ; London : Calder, 1979 |
| Footfalls. – London : Faber, 1976 |
| Ends and Odds : Eight New Dramatic Pieces. – New York : Grove, 1976. – Comprises Not I, That Time, Footfalls, Ghost Trio, Theatre I, Theatre II, Radio I, and Radio II |
| Ends and Odds : Plays and Sketches. – London : Faber, 1977. – Comprises Not I, That Time, Footfalls, Ghost Trio, Theatre I, Theatre II, Radio I,Radio II, and … but the clouds … |
| Four Novellas. – London : Calder, 1977. – comprises First Love, The Expelled, The Calmative, and The End |
| Expelled, and Other Novellas. – New York : Penguin, 1980. – comprises First Love, The Expelled, The Calmative, and The End |
| Company. – New York : Grove, 1980 |
| Nohow On : Three Novels. – New York : Grove, 1980. – comprises Company, Ill Seen, Ill Said, and Worstward Ho |
| Rockaby and Other Short Pieces. – New York : Grove, 1981. – Comprises Rockaby, Ohio Impromptu, All Strange Away, and A Piece of Monologue |
| Three Plays. – New York : Grove, 1984. – Comprises Ohio Impromptu, Catastrophe, and What Where |
| As the Story Was Told. – Cambridge : Rampant Lions, 1987 |
| Stirrings Still. – New York : Blue Moon, 1988 ; London : Calder, 1988 |
| Dream of Fair to Middling Women / edited by Eoin O’Brien and Edith Fournier. – Dublin : Black Cat Press, 1992 |
| Works in French |
| Molloy. – Paris : Minuit, 1951 |
| Malone meurt. – Paris : Minuit, 1951 |
| En attendant Godot. – Paris : Minuit, 1952 |
| L’innommable. – Paris : Minuit, 1953 |
| Nouvelles et Textes pour rien. – Paris : Minuit, 1955 |
| Fin de partie, suivi de Acte sans paroles. – Paris : Minuit, 1957 |
| Têtes-Mortes. – Paris : Minuit, 1967. – Éd. Augm. 1972 |
| Acte sans paroles II // Dramatische Dichtungen. – Vol. 1. – Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1963 |
| Comment c’est. – Paris : Minuit, 1961 |
| Imagination morte imaginez. – Paris : Minuit, 1965 |
| Assez. – Paris : Minuit, 1966 |
| Bing. – Paris : Minuit, 1966 |
| Poèmes. – Paris : Minuit, 1968 |
| Sans. – Paris : Minuit, 1969 |
| Le Dépeupleur. – Paris : Minuit, 1970 |
| Mercier et Camier. – Paris : Minuit, 1970 |
| Premier amour. – Paris : Minuit, 1970 |
| Pour finir encore et autres foirades. – Paris : Minuit, 1976 |
| Poèmes , suivi de Mirlitonnades. – Paris : Minuit, 1978 |
| Catastrophe et autres dramaticules. – Paris : Minuit, 1982 |
| Eleuthéria. – Paris : Minuit, 1995 |
| Translations into English |
| Molloy / translated by the author and Patrick Bowles. – Paris : Olympia, 1955 ; New York : Grove, 1955 |
| Malone Dies / translated by the author. – New York : Grove, 1956 ; London : Calder, 1958 |
| Waiting for Godot / translated by the author. – New York : Grove, 1954 ; London : Faber, 1956. – Rev. ed. / edited by Douglas McMillan and James Knowleson. – London : Faber, 1993 |
| The Unnamable. – New York : Grove, 1958 ; London : Calder & Boyars, 1975 |
| Stories and Texts for Nothing / translated by the author. – New York : Grove, 1967 |
| Endgame, followed by Act Without Words / translated by the author. – New York : Grove, 1958 ; London : Faber, 1958 |
| How It Is / translated by the author. – New York : Grove, 1964 ; London : Calder, 1964 |
| Imagination Dead Imagine / translated by the author. – London : Calder & Boyars, 1965 |
| No’s Knife : Collected Shorter Prose, 1945-1966 / translated from the French by the author and Richard Seaver. – London : Calder & Boyars, 1967 |
| Lessness / translated by the author. – London : Calder & Boyars, 1970 |
| The Lost Ones / translated by the author. – London : Calder & Boyars, 1972 ; New York : Grove, 1972 |
| Mercier and Camier / translated by the author. – London : Calder & Boyars, 1974 ; New York : Grove, 1975 |
| First Love / translated by the author. – London : Calder & Boyars, 1973 |
| For to End Yet Again and Other Fizzles / translated by the author. – London : Calder, 1976 |
| Eleutheria : A Play in Three Acts / translated by Michael Brodsky. – New York : Foxrock, 1995 |
| Eleuthéria. – translated by Barbara Wright. – London : Faber, 1996 |
| Translations into French |
| Murphy / translated into French by the author. – Paris : Bordas, 1947 |
| Watt / translated into French by the author, Ludovic Janvier, and Agnès Janvier. – Paris : Minuit, 1968 |
| Tous ceux qui tombent / translated into French by the author and Robert Pinget. – Paris : Minuit, 1957 |
| La Dernière Bande, suivi de Cendres / translated into French by the author and Pierre Leiris. – Paris : Minuit, 1960 |
| Oh les beaux jours / translated into French by the author. – Paris : Minuit, 1963 |
| Comédie et actes divers / translated into French by the author. – Paris : Minuit, 1966 |
| Film / translated into French by the author. – Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1968 |
| Film, suivi de Souffle / translated into French by the author. – Paris : Minuit, 1972 |
| Oh les beaux jours, suivi de Pas moi / translated into French by the author. – Paris : Minuit, 1975 |
| Cette fois / translated into French by the author. – Paris : Minuit, 1978 |
| Foirade = Fizzles. – Bilingual ed. / translated into French by the author. – London & New York : Petersburg, 1976 ; Paris : Fequet & Baudier, 1976 |
| Pas / translated into French by the author. – Paris : Minuit, 1977 |
| Compagnie / translated into French by the author. – Paris : Minuit, 1979 |
| Mal vu mal dit / translated into French by the author. – Paris : Minuit, 1981 |
| Berceuse, suivi de Impromptu d’Ohio / translated into French by the author. – Paris : Minuit, 1982 |
| Solo, suivi de Catastrophe / translated into French by the author. – Paris : Minuit, 1982 |
| Collections |
| The Collected Works of Samuel Beckett. – 16 vol. – New York : Grove, 1970 |
| Collected Poems in English and French. – New York : Grove, 1977 ; London : Calder, 1977 |
| Disjecta : Miscellaneous Writings and a Dramatic Fragment / edited by Ruby Cohn. – London : Calder, 1983 ; New York : Grove, 1983 |
| Collected Shorter Plays. – New York : Grove, 1984 ; London : Faber, 1984 |
| Collected Poems 1930-1978. – London : Calder, 1984 |
| Collected Shorter Prose, 1945-1980. – London : Calder, 1984 |
| The Complete Dramatic Works. – London : Faber, 1986 |
| Samuel Beckett : The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989 / edited, with an introduction, by S. E. Gontarski. – New York : Grove, 1995 |
| Poems : 1930-1989. – London : Calder, 2002 |
| Samuel Beckett : The Grove Centenary Edition of Samuel Beckett. – 4 vol. / ed. by Paul Auster. – New York : Grove Press, 2006 |
| Critical studies (a selection) |
| Esslin, Martin, The Theatre of the Absurd. – New York : Doubleday, 1961 |
| Kenner, Hugh, Samuel Beckett : a Critical Study. – London : Calder, 1962 |
| Fletcher, John, The Novels of Samuel Beckett. – London : Chatto & Windus, 1964 |
| Tindall, William York, Samuel Beckett. – New York, 1964 |
| Federman, Raymond, Journey to Chaos : Samuel Beckett’s Early Fiction. – Berkeley : Univ. of California Press, 1965 |
| Samuel Beckett : a Collection of Critical Essays. – Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1965 |
| Beckett at 60 : a Festschrift. – London : Calder & Boyars, 1967 |
| Janvier, Ludovic, Pour Samuel Beckett. – Paris : Editions de Minuit, 1969 |
| Samuel Beckett Now : Critical Approaches to His Novels, Poetry, and Plays. – Chicago, Ill., 1970 |
| Hagberg, Per Olof, The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter : a Comparative Analysis of Main Themes and Dramatic Technique. – Göteborg, 1972 |
| Webb, Eugene, The Plays of Samuel Beckett. – London : Owen, cop. 1972 |
| Samuel Beckett : the Critical Heritage. – London : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979 |
| Fletcher, John, Beckett : the Playwright. – New York : Hill and Wang, 1985 |
| O’Brien, Eoin, The Beckett Country : Samuel Beckett’s Ireland. – London : Faber, 1986 |
| Begam, Richard, Samuel Beckett and the End of Modernity. – Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1996 |
| Cronin, Anthony, Samuel Beckett :the Last Modernist. – London : HarperCollins, 1996 |
| Knowlson, James, Damned to Fame : the Life of Samuel Beckett. – London : Bloomsbury, 1996 |
| Davies, Paul, Beckett and Eros : Death of Humanism. – Basingstoke : Macmillan, 2000 |
| Atik, Anne, How it Was :a Memoir of Samuel Beckett. – London : Faber, 2001 |
| Gordon, Lois G., Reading Godot. – New Haven, Conn. : Yale Univ. Press, 2002 |
| Albright, Daniel, Beckett and aesthetics. – Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003 |
| Beckett Remembering, Remembering Beckett : Uncollected Interviews with Samuel Beckett and Memories of Those Who Knew Him. – London : Bloomsbury, 2006 |
| Pilling, John., A Samuel Beckett Chronology. – Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 |
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