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Article: New books.(Samuel Beckett: The Grove Centenary Edition)(Berlin Childhood Around 1900)(Betraying Spinoza)(Everyman)(Brief article)(Book review)
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- Harper's Magazine
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- May 1, 2006
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About Wagner and Mahler, Samuel Beckett believed that less is more. But for his one hundredth birthday, SAMUEL BECKETT: THE GROVE CENTENARY EDITION gives us almost everything--seven novels, thirty-two plays, thirty poems, fifty-four stories, texts, and novellas, and three critical essays, in four handsome volumes, $24 each. Omitted are his first novel and his first play, neither of which he permitted to be published in his lifetime. Added, by editor Paul Auster, are introductions by big-foot admirers.
Thus, leading off a Volume I that includes Murphy, Watt, and Mercier and Camier, Colm Toibin thinks out loud about Joyce, Dublin, Protestants, psychotherapy, and ...