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Book SynopsisCompany was first composed in English over two years, with Beckett breaking a 20-year-long pattern of composing primarily in French to craft this meticulously structured 59-paragraph masterpiece of his late prose. Its French companion,
Compagnie, was translated in only two weeks.The genetic critical analysis of the manuscripts of Company/Compagnie takes this schema-dependent compositional method as its core focus. It forwards a new hypothesis regarding the genetic map of both works, and considers the relationship between this uniquely entwined original' and translation.'This volume is part of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (BDMP), a collaboration between the Centre for Manuscript Genetics (University of Antwerp, Belgium), the Beckett International Foundation (University of Reading, UK) and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre (University of Texas at Austin, USA), with the support of theEstate of Samuel Beckett.
Table of ContentsTable of Contents The Beckett Digital Manuscript Project Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Note on the Transcriptions List of Illustrations Introduction: Keeping
Compagnie Company: C = A + V + B 20 1. Documents 1.1 Autograph Manuscripts 1.1.1 English 1.1.2 French 1.2 Typescripts 1.2.1 English 1.2.2 French 1.3 Pre-book publications 1.3.1 English 1.4 Page Proofs 1.4.1 English 1.5 Editions 1.5.1 French 1.5.2 English (US) 1.5.3 English (UK) 1.6 Genetic Map 2. Genesis of
Company / Compagnie 2.1 Genesis of
Company 2.1.1 Chronology 2.1.2 Context 2.1.3 Before
Company 2.1.4 The Genesis of
Company bdmp9-binnen.indb 8 15/09/2020 16:45 2.2 Genesis of
Compagnie 2.2.1 Chronology 2.2.2 Context 2.2.3 Genesis: Translation as ‘recall’ / ‘de remémoration’ Conclusion Works Cited Works by Beckett Other Works Cited or Consulted Websites Index
