Letters from Beckett


	Letters from Beckett

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But that makes the letters of these years all the more precious. Beckett, by
all accounts, was the most courteous of men, and it seems that even at the
height of his fame he still tried to answer as courteously as he could the
hundreds of letters he received. But the sixty-year-old smiling (or, more
often, in the photos we have of him, scowling) public man now knew exactly
where his priorities lay: after spending the mornings on his correspondence
he would devote the afternoons to his own writing. In the 1930s, however,
there was no public man, and we have to see the letters as merely one of
many ways in which an ambitious, confused and tormented young writer
attempted to discover who he was and what it was he wanted out of life and
art. These early letters, in other words, are, like the early poems and
stories, in the strict sense essais, the trying out of a voice, a tone,
even, at times, another language.
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