{"id":2059,"date":"2018-02-05T11:02:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T11:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reading.ac.uk\/the-forum\/?p=2059"},"modified":"2018-02-05T11:02:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T11:02:38","slug":"beckett-creative-fellowship-eimear-mcbride-blog-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/2018\/02\/05\/beckett-creative-fellowship-eimear-mcbride-blog-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Beckett Creative Fellowship \u2013 Eimear McBride blog Part 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2018\/01\/EimearMcBride-Beckett-Fellow-story.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1956\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2018\/01\/EimearMcBride-Beckett-Fellow-story-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of all I\u2019ve read in my life, and all that\u2019s yet to come, what\u2019s going to count? How much of it has changed me? How much has even marked me? How much has done both but I don\u2019t know it yet? Readers get to make these discoveries in the privacy of their own heads. Writers must make them in public and then wear them in their back catalogues for as long as they have a readership who cares.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The other week I sat reading a draft of one of Beckett\u2019s earliest attempts at drama \u2018Human Wishes\u2019 about the relationship between Samuel Johnson and Hester Thrale. It\u2019s hard to believe it\u2019s by the same writer who would one day come up with Godot or Mouth or Krapp. It\u2019s similarly intriguing to see how apparent \u2018Dubliners\u2019 is in \u2018More Pricks than Kicks\u2019 while Beckett\u2019s own Malone is still nowhere to be seen. By the time he gets to \u2018The Unnamable\u2019 Beckett seems to me to have reached the distillation of his own voice and yet, in later years, he claimed to be unable to recognise himself as its author anymore. Happily, for the reader, that\u2019s neither here nor there. As a writer though, and one with the opportunity to look at how much work went in to everything Beckett set himself to, that\u2019s quite depressing.<\/p>\n<p><em>Multi-award-winning author Eimeer McBride is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news-and-events\/releases\/PR746482.aspx\">Reading\u2019s first Beckett Creative Fellow<\/a>, and has been given unique access to our internationally important\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/special-collections\/collections\/sc-beckett.aspx\">Beckett Archive<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; the largest collection of publicly accessible Samuel Beckett materials in the world.\u00a0This is\u00a0her\u00a0latest monthly\u00a0journal entry about her\u00a0experiences of working with the materials.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of all I\u2019ve read in my life, and all that\u2019s yet to come, what\u2019s going to count? How much of it has changed me? 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