Information and Guide to Anglo-Irish writer Samuel Beckett created and maintained in Dublin, Ireland

Samuel Beckett: A Critical Study
Hugh Kenner

Samuel Beckett: The Comic Gamut
Ruby Cohn

Samuel Beckett: The Language of Self
Frederick John Hoffman

The Long Sonata of the Dead: A Study of Samuel Beckett
Michael Robinson

Beckett the Shape Changer
Katherine Worth

Beckett/Beckett: The Classic Study of a Modern Genius
Vivian Mercier

No Symbols Where None Intended
Carlton Lake

The Intent of Undoing in Samuel Beckett's Dramatic Texts
S. E. Gontarski

On Beckett: Essays and Criticism
S. E. Gontarski, editor.

The Novels of Samuel Beckett
John Fletcher

Journey to Chaos: Samuel Beckett's Early Fiction
Raymond Federman

Samuel Beckett: Poet and Critic
Lawrence Harvey

Structures de la trilogie de Beckett
Dina Sherzer

Frescoes of the Skull: The Later Prose and Drama of Samuel Beckett
James Knowlson & John Pilling

Beckett and the Voice of Species: A Study of the Prose Fiction
Eric P. Levy

Samuel Beckett: A Study of the Short Fiction
Robert Cochran

A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett
Hugh Kenner

Demented Particulars: The Annotated Murphy
C. J. Ackerley

Myth and Ritual in the Plays of Samuel Beckett
Katherine H. Burkman, Editor

Samuel Beckett
Andrew K. Kennedy

Samuel Beckett (Modern Critical Views)
Harold Bloom & William Golding

Samuel Beckett's Self Referential Drama: The Three I's
Simon Levy

The World of Samuel Beckett
Joseph A. Smith, Introduction

Beckett Writing Beckett: The Author in the Autograph
H. Porter Abbot

Samuel Beckett
Jennifer Birkett & Kate Ince

Theatre of Shadows
Rosemary Pountney

Theatre on Trail: Samuel Beckett's Later Drama
Anna McMullan

Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett
John Pilling

A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett
Hugh Kenner

Transformation of Godot
Frederick Busi

Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot
Harold Bloom & William Golding

Chronicles of Disorder
David Weisberg

Engagement and Indifference: Beckett and the Practical
Henry Sussman & Christopher Devenney

The Complete Critical Guide to Samuel Beckett
David Pattie

Beckett and Eros: The Death of Humanism
Paul Davies

The Beckett Canon
Ruby Cohn



Albright, Daniel. Beckett and Aesthetics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Arsic, Branka. The Passive Eye: Gaze and Subjectivity in Berkeley (Via Beckett). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003.

Badiou, Alain. On Beckett. Trans. Nina Power & Alberto Toscano. Manchester: Clinamen Press, 2003.

Bartillat, Christian de. Deux amis: Beckett et Hayden. Étrepilly: Les presses du Village, 2000.

Ben-Zvi, Linda, ed. Drawing on Beckett: Portraits, Performances, and Cultural Contexts. Assaph Studies in the Theatre. Tel Aviv: Assaph Books, 2003. [contact anath@tauex.tau.ac.il]

Birkett, Jennifer, and Kate Ince, eds. Samuel Beckett. New York: Longman, 2000.

Blau, Herbert. Sails of the Herring Fleet: Essays on Beckett. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.

Boulter, Jonathan. Interpreting Narrative in the Novels of Samuel Beckett. University Press of Florida, October 2001

Boxall, Peter, guest ed. Beckett/Aesthetics/Politics / Beckett/l'esthétique/la politique -- Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui 9, ed. Marius Buning, et al. Amsterdam & Atlanta: Rodopi, 2000.

Bradby, David. Beckett: "Waiting for Godot." Plays in Production. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001

Brater, Enoch. The Essential Samuel Beckett: An Illustrated Biography. London: Thames and Hidson, 2003.

Brater, Enoch. Beyond Minimalism: Beckett's Late Style in the Theater. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002 [reissue of 1987 edition]

Brockmeier, Peter. Samuel Beckett. Stuttgart: Verlag J. B. Metzler, 2001.

Bryden, Mary & Lance St. John Butler, guest eds., Beckett and Religion / Beckett et religion -- Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui 9, ed. Marius Buning, et al. Amsterdam & Atlanta: Rodopi, 2000.

Buning, Marius, Matthijs Engelberts, Sjef Houppermans, eds. Pastiches, Parodies, and Other Imitations. Vol 11 of Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002.

Buning, Marius, Matthijs Engelberts, Sjef Houppermans, & Danièle de Ruyter-tognotti, eds. "Three Dialogues" Revisited. Vol 13 of Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003.

Cascetta, Annemaria. Il tragico et l'unorismo: Studio sulla drammaturgia di Samuel Beckett. Florence: Le Lettere, 2000.

Chawla, Nishi. Samuel Beckett: Reading the Body in his Writing. New Delhi: Prestige, 1999.

Cohn, Ruby. A Beckett Canon. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, June 2001.

Collinge, Linda. Beckett traduit Beckett. De Malone meurt à Malone Dies, l'imaginaire en traduction. Genève: Droz, 2000.

Coots, Steve. Samuel Beckett: A Beginner's Guide. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2001

Cousineau, Thomas. After the Final No: Samuel Beckett's Trilogy. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1999.

Davies, Paul. Beckett and Eros: the Death of Humanism. Houndmills: Macmillan, 2000.

Dukes, Gerry. Samuel Beckett. New York: Overlook Press, 2002.

Engelberts, Matthijs, Slef Houppermans, Yann Mével, and Michèle Touret, eds. L'Affect dans l'oeuvre beckettienne, Vol. 10 of Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui. Amsterdam & Atlanta: Rodopi, 2000.

Engelberts, Matthijs. Défis du récit scénique: formes et enjeux du mode narratif dans le théâtre de Beckett et de Duras. Geneva: Droz, 2001.

Engelberts, Matthijs, Marius Buning, and Sjef Houppermans, eds. Poetry and Other Prose/Poesieset autres proses. Volume 8 of Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999.

Essif, Les. Empty Figure on an Empty Stage: the Theatre of Samuel Beckett and his Generation. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001.

Ferrini, Jean-Pierre. Dante et Beckett. Paris: Hermann, 2003.

Fletcher, John. About Beckett: The Playwright and the Work. London: Faber & Faber, 2003

Fletcher, John. Samuel Beckett, "Waiting for Godot" / "Krapp's Last Tape" / "Endgame." London: Faber and Faber, 2000.

Friedman, Alan. Beckett in Black and Red: Samuel Beckett's Translations for Nancy Cunard's "Negro." Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1999.

Godeau, Florence. Récits en souffrance. Paris: Editions Klimé, 2001.

Gontarski, S. E., ed. The Beckett Studies Reader. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Gordon, Lois. Reading "Godot." New Haven: Yale University Press, spring 2002

Haynes, John & James Knowlson. Images of Beckett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Heinemann, Paul. Potenzierte Subjekte -- Potenzierte Fiktionen: Ich-Figurationen und Ästhetische Konstruktion bei Jean Paul und Samuel Beckett. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2001

Houppermans, Sjef. Samuel Beckett & Compagnie. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003.

Jeffers, Jennifer. Uncharted Space: The End of Narrative. Peter Lang, 2001.

Katz, Daniel. Saying "I" No More: Subjectivity and Consciousness in the Prose of Samuel Beckett. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1999.

Keller, John. Samuel Beckett and the Primacy of Love. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003.

Kelley, Paul B. "Stories for Nothing": Samuel Beckett's Narrative Poetics. New York: Peter Lang, 2002.

Kundert-Gibbs, John L. No-Thing Is Left to Tell/Chaos Theory in the Dramatic Art of Samuel Beckett. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickenson University Press, 1999.

Lane, Richard J., ed. Beckett and Philosophy. New York: Palgrave, 2002

Levy, Shimon. Samuel Beckett's Self-Referential Drama: the Sensitive Chaos. 2nd revised edition. Brighton: Sussex Academic, 2002.

Libera, Antoni. Samuel Beckett: Wiernosc prezgranej. Krakow: Wydanictwo Znak, 1999.

Marvel, Laura, ed. Readings on "Waiting for Godot." Literary Companion Series. Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven Press, 2001.

Mitchel, Breon & Lois More Overbeck, eds. Word and Image: Samuel Beckett and the Visual Text/Mot et image: Samuel Beckett et le texte visuel. Atlanta: Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University,1999. [for copies, contact Druid Hills Bookstore, Atlanta]

Moorjani, Angela, & Carola Veit, eds. Samuel Beckett: Endlessness in the Year 2000 / Fin sans fin en l'an 2000. Volume 11 of Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001

Oppenheim, Lois, ed. Samuel Beckett and the Arts: Music, Visual Arts and Non-Print Media. New York: Garland, 1999.

Oppenheim, Lois. The Painted Word: Beckett's Dialogue with Art. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, April 2000.

O'Reilly, Edouard Magessa, ed. Samuel Beckett,"Comment c'est" "How It Is" and/et "L'image: A Critical-Genetic Edition / une Édition critic(o)-génétique. New York: Garland, 2001.

Pattie, David. The Complete Critical Guide to Samuel Beckett. London: Routledge, 2001.

Sardin-Damestoy, Pascale. Samuel Beckett autotraducteur ou l'art de l'empêchement. Collection Traductologie. Arras: Artois Presses Université, 2002.

Smith Frederik N. Beckett's Eighteenth Century. London: Palgrave, 2002.

Sussman, Henry and Christopher Devenney, eds. Engagement and Indifference: Beckett and the Political. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000.

Tsushima, Michiko. The Space of Vacillation: The Experience of Language in Beckett, Blanchot, and Heidegger. New York: Peter Lang, 2003.

Uhlmann, Anthony. Beckett and Poststructuralism. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Veit, Carola. Ich-Konzept und Körper in Becketts dualen Konstruktionen. Berlin Weidler Buchvertag, 2002.

Wesberg, David. Chronicles of Disorder: Samuel Beckett and the Cultural Politics of the Modern Novel. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000.

Worth, Katharine. Samuel Beckett's Theatre: Life Journeys. London: Oxford University Press, 2001. [Paperback re-issue] Recent: 1995-1998

Abbott, H. Porter. Beckett Writing Beckett: The Author in the Autograph. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996.

Acheson, James. Samuel Beckett's Artistic Theory and Practice: Criticism, Drama, and Early Fiction. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.

Andonian, Cathleen C., ed. The Critical Response to Samuel Beckett. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1998.

Badiou, Alain. Beckett. L'increvable désir. Coup double. Hachette. Paris, 1995.

Becher, Frank. Keine Versohnung mit dem Nichts: Zur Rezeption von Samuel Beckett in der DDR. New York: Peter Lang, 1997.

BECKETTIANA. Cuadernos del Seminario Beckett (Universidad de Buenos Aires), No. 4, 1995.

Begam, Richard. Samuel Beckett and the End of Modernity. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996.

Breuer, Rolf and Werner Huber, eds. A Checklist of Beckett Criticism in German. Paderborn: Schoningh, 1996.

Brockmeier, Peter, and Carola Veit, eds. Komik und Solipsismus im Werk Samuel Becketts. Stuttgart: Metzler und Poeschel, 1997.

Bryden, Mary. Samuel Beckett and the Idea of God. Basingstroke: Macmillan, 1998.

Bryden, Mary, ed. Samuel Beckett and Music. Oxford University Press, 1998.

Bryden, Mary, Julian Garforth, and Peter Mills. Beckett at Reading: Catalogue of the Beckett Manuscript Collection at the University of Reading. Reading: Whiteknights Press & Beckett International Foundation, 1998.

Buning, Marius, Danielle De Ruyter, Matthijis Engelberts, and Sjef Houppermans, eds. Beckett vs. Beckett. Volume 7 of Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui. Amsterdam & Atlanta, GA: Rodopoi, 1998.Baker, Phil. Beckett and the Mythology of Psychoanalysis. London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.

Buning, Marius, Matthijs Engleberts, Sjef Houppermans, and Emmanuel Jacquart, eds. Samuel Beckett: Crossroads and Borderlines. L'oeuvre carrefour/l'oeuvre limite. Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodophi, 1997.

Baumlttner, Gottfried. Unterwegs im 20. Jahrhundert: Errinerungen, Begegnungen, Anekdoten. Dornach, Germany: Verlag am Goetheanum, 1997.

Casanova, Pascale. Beckett l'abstracteur: Anatomie d'une revolution litteraire. Paris: Seuil, 1996.

Cronin, Anthony. Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist. London: Harper Collins, 1996.

Edwards, Michael. Beckett et le don des langues. Paris: Editions Espace 34, 1998.

Federman, Raymond and William R. Howe. Sam Changed Tense: A Collection of Poems in Homage to Samuel Beckett. Buffalo: Tailspin Press, 1996.

Gordon, Lois. The World of Samuel Beckett. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.

Grossman, Evelyne. L'esthetique de Beckett. Paris: SEDES, 1998.

Grossman, Evelyne, and Regis Salado, eds. Samuel Beckett: l'ecriture et la scene. Paris: SEDES, 1998.

Harel, Vered. Samuel Beckett and the Absurd (Hebrew). Tel Aviv: Chericover publishing house, 1997.

Hoeden van der, Jean. Samuel Beckett et la question de Dieu. Paris: Edition du Cerf, 1997.

Hunkeler, Thomas. Echos de l'ego dans l'oeuvre de Samuel Beckett. Paris & Montreal: L'Harmattan, 1997.

Jeffers, Jennifer M., ed. Samuel Beckett: A Casebook. Levittown, PA: Garland, 1998.

Junker, Mary. Beckett: The Irish Dimension. Niwot, CO: Irish American Book Company, 1997.

Kim, Hwa Soon. The Counterpoint of Hope, Obsession and Desire for Death in Five Plays by Samuel Beckett. New York: Peter Lang, 1996.

Knowlson, James. Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett. London: Bloomsbury, 1996.

Libera, Antoni, ed. Samuel Beckett Dramaty. Warsaw: Biblioteka Narodowa, 1995.

Lombez, Christine, Herve Bismuth, and Ciaran Ross. Lectures d'une oeuvre: En attendant Godot, Fin de partie, de Samuel Beckett. Paris: Editions du Temps, 1998.

O'Hara, J. D. Samuel Beckett's Hidden Drives: Structural Uses of Depth Psychology. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997.

Oppenheim, Lois. Directing Beckett (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997). [Now in paperback].

Oppenheim, Lois and Marius Buning, eds. Beckett On and On. . . Madison and London: Associated University Presses, 1996. [Now in paperback]

Phalese, Hubert de [psuedonym of research team]. Beckett a la lettre: En attendant Godot, Fin de partie. Paris: Nizet, 1998.

Pilling, John. Beckett Before Godot: The Formative Years (1929-1946). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Pultar, Gonul. Technique and Tradition in Beckett's Trilogy of Novels. Lanham,MD: University Press of America, 1996.

Rathjen, Friedhelm. Samuel Beckett und Sein Fahrrader. Dramstadt: Verlag Jurgenhausser, 1996.

Stevens, Richard. The Insanity of Beckett's Art. Parker, CO: Parker Distributing, 1997.

Tonnies, Merle. Samuel Beckett's Dramatic Strategy: Audience Laughter and the Postmodernist Debate. Trier, GER: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 1997.

Touret, Lectures de Beckett. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 1998.