Thursday, August 21, 2014

Writers

At 3:AM Magazine, a review of Volodine's newly translated Writers.

The review mentions The Unnamable, but the real Beckett intertext for Writers might be Krapp's Last Tape: "Seventeen copies sold, of which eleven at trade price to free circulating libraries beyond the seas. Getting known."

Getting known. In Beckett's French translation La Dernière bande, which came after: "Dix sept exemplaires de vendus, dont onze au prix de gros à des bibliothèques municipales d'au-delà les mers. En passe d'être quelqu'un."