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Beckett our Contemporary

Posted on
14 June 202114 June 2021

We at the Beckett Centre often draw on our spectacular archives of Beckett’s notes and manuscripts to examine the links between his work and the moment in which it was…Read More >

Third How It Is Samuel Beckett Symposium

Posted on
12 March 2021

Gare St. Lazare Ireland (GSLI) and The Samuel Beckett Centre at University of Reading teamed up to present a third How It Is Symposium on the 5 March 2021. The…Read More >

Beckett Creative Fellowship – Eimear McBride blog Part 7

Posted on
9 May 2018

Last month the moment I’d been putting off finally arrived and it was time to write. How is it that the blank page upon which something influenced by time spent…Read More >

Beckett Creative Fellowship – Eimear McBride blog Part 6

Posted on
5 April 2018

There is a perceived impossibility to writing after Beckett. When everything has been winnowed away, what can possibly be left? And yet life is left. At the end of what…Read More >

Beckett Creative Fellowship – Eimear McBride blog Part 5

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6 March 2018

I hit a bit of a Beckett wall this month and came to understand why he is often called The Last Modernist – a view I have hitherto opposed. After…Read More >

Beckett Creative Fellowship – Eimear McBride blog Part 4

Posted on
5 February 2018

Of all I’ve read in my life, and all that’s yet to come, what’s going to count? How much of it has changed me? How much has even marked me?…Read More >

Beckett Creative Fellowship – Eimear McBride blog Part 2

Posted on
15 January 2018

It was pretty cold when I visited the archive in December and, in rebellion at the pummellings of pre-Christmas cheer, I ordered up some drafts of Beckett’s final prose work…Read More >

Beckett Creative Fellowship – Eimear McBride blog Part 1

Posted on
4 December 2017

Multi-award-winning author Eimear McBride is the inaugural Creative Fellow at the University of Reading’s Samuel Beckett Research Centre. This role allows her exclusive access to the University’s Beckett Archive and…Read More >

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