Samuel Beckett - Hugh Kenner

Title: Samuel Beckett
Author: Hugh Kenner
Publisher: John Calder (Publishers) Ltd.
Format: Hardcover with dust jacket
Edition: First UK edition, 1962
ISBN: No ISBN
Condition: Second-hand. Good. Dust jacket is protected in a clear covering and shows rubbing, surface marks, edge wear, small chips and short tears, with creasing and wear around the spine ends and corners. The rear panel shows age-related discolouration and handling marks. The front endpaper has a previous owner's name and a dated Cape Town, November 1962 inscription. A period newspaper clipping and Juta's Bookshop label are mounted to the front pastedown. Please see photos for the exact copy available.

Hugh Kenner's landmark study of Samuel Beckett was the first full-length critical examination of the writer, tracing the ideas, methods and literary traditions behind his fiction and drama while placing Beckett in relation to figures including James Joyce and Marcel Proust.

Published by John Calder in 1962, this first UK hardcover edition offers a contemporary critical perspective on Beckett at the point when works such as Waiting for Godot had established him as one of the defining writers of post-war literature.