1986. A Samuel Beckett CHRONOLOGY.
by C. George SANDULESCU, Monaco.
(The booklet A Beckett Synopsis was published by Colin Smythe of Gerrards Cross in 1986; it here appears in a much reduced and abridged form, emphasizing merely the chronological aspect of S.B.'s work, with all self-translation titles having been omitted.)
An Abridged Version.
(Initially, a complete listing of the works of Samuel Beckett, chronologically arranged up to the year 1983, and with a clear specification of the language (English, or French) in which they were first written. For fuller entries, I repeat, SEE the booklet A Beckett Synopsis, published in 1986 by Colin Smythe of Gerrards Cross.)
The System of abbreviations is as follows:
No. chronological numbering . . .
w' written in the year 19...
fre1/eng2 Item x was first written in French, and then, translated by Samuel Beckett himself into English; the two texts were, as a rule, published separately.
drm // fc. S/M/L // poe : drama // fiction (Long, Short, Medium ) // poetry
For all other abbreviations, SEE the printed version, published by Colin Smythe
in 1986.
THE CHRONOLOGY 1929 to 1983:
No: written: first lg: genre: TITLES: Publication:
001 w'29 fre1 gen Le Concentrisme Cn Lon'83
002 w'29 eng1 crt Dante...Bruno. Vico.. Joyce Cn Par'29
003 w'29 eng1 fc.s Assumption (1,500w) per Par'29
004 w'29 eng1 gen Che Sciagura (420w) perDublin'29
005 w'30 eng1 poe For Future Reference (74 lines) per Par '30
006 w'30 eng1 poe Whoroscope (98 lines) bk Par '30
007 w'30 eng1 poe From the Only Poet to a Shining Whore (17 l) cn Par'30
008 w'31 eng1 crt Proust (72 pages) bk Lon'31
009 w'31 eng1 drm Le Kid MS lost; performed in Dublin in Feb. '31
010 w'31 eng1 drm The Possessed (380w) Per Dublin '31
011 w'31 eng1 poe Hell Crane to Starling (25 lines) Cn NY '31
12 w'31 eng1 poe Casket of Pralinen ... (75 lines) Cn NY '31
013 w'31 eng1 poe Text (69 lines) Cn NY '31
014 w'31 eng1 poe Yoke of Liberty (13 lines) Cn NY '31
015 w'31 eng1 poe Return to the Vestry (13 lines) Per Par '31
016 w'31 eng1/fre2 poe Alba (17 lines) Per Dublin '31/Par '38
017 w'32 eng1 fc.L Dream of Fair to Midling Women Cn Lon '83
018 w'32 eng1 fc.S Sedendo et Quiescendo (2,800w) Per Hague '32
019 w'32 eng1 crt Poetry Is Vertical Per Hague '32
020 w'32 eng1 fc.S Dante and the Lobster (3,800w) Per Hague '32
021 w'32 eng1 poe Home Olga Cn Chapel Hill '34
022 w'33 eng1 poe Malacoda (29 lines) Cn Par '35
023 w'33 eng1 poe Da Tagte Es (4 lines) Cn Par '35
024 w'34 eng1 fc.S More Pricks Than Kicks (10) Cn Lon '34
025 w'34 eng1 bR Schwabenstreich Per Lon '34
026 w'34 eng1 bR Proust in Pieces Per Lon '34
027 w'34 eng1 bR Poems. By Rainer Maria Rilke (500w) Per Lon '34
028 w'34 eng1 crt Recent Irish Poetry Per Lon '34
029 w'34 eng1 bR Humanistic Quietism Per Dublin '34
030 w'34 eng1 bR Papini's Dante (750w) Per Lon '34
031 w'34 eng1 poe Gnome (4 lines) Per Dublin '34
032 w'34 eng1 fc.S A Case in a Thousand (2,000w) Per Lon '34
033 w'34 eng1 bR The Essential and the Incidental (550w) Per Lon '34
034 w'34 eng1 bR Ex Cathezra (750w) Per Lon '34
035 w'34 eng1 poe Echo's Bones (5 lines) Cn Par '35
036 w'35 eng1 gen Censorship in the Saorstat Cn Lon '83
037 w'35 eng1 poe Echo's Bones and Other Precipitates (13) Cn Par '35
038 w'36 eng1 poe Cascando (34 lines) Per Dublin '36
039 w'36 eng1 bR An Imaginative Work (600w) Per Dublin '36
040 w'36 eng1 corr On Murphy (to Th. McGreevy) Cn Lon '83
041 w'36 eng1 corr On Murphy (to G. Reavey) Cn Lon '83
042 w'37 fre1/eng2 poe Dieppe Per Par '46 & Dublin '45
043 w'37 ger1/eng2 corr German letter of 1937 Cn Lon '83
044 w'37 fre1 poe Arènes de Lutèce Per Par '46
045 w'37 eng1 poe jusque dans la caverne ciel et sol Per Par '46
046 w'37 fre1 poe rue de Vaugirard Per Par '46
047 w'37 eng1 drm Human Wishes Cn Princeton '80
048 w'37 eng1/fre2 drm they come Cn NY '46
049 w'38 eng1 poe Ooftish (19 lines) Per Par '38
050 w'38 eng1/fre2 fc.L Murphy (13 chapters) Bk Lon '38
051 w'38 eng1 bR Denis Devlin (1,500w) Per Par '38
052 w'38 eng1 crt Geer van Velde Cn Lon '38
053 w'38 fre1 crt Les Deux Besoins Cn Lon '83
054 w'39 fre1 poe à elle l'acte calme (11 lines) Per Par '46
055 w'39 fre1 poe être là sans mâchoires sans dents Per Par '46
056 w'39 fre1 poe Ascension (18 lines) Per Par '46
057 w'39 fre1 poe La Mouche (10 lines) Per Par '46
058 w'39 fre1 poe musique de l'indifférence (6 lines) PerPar'46
059 w'39 fre1 poe bois seul (7 lines) Per Par '46
060 w'39 fre1 poe ainsi a-t-on beau (14 lines) Per Par '46
061 w'44/68 eng1/fre2 fc.L Watt (4 parts and an addenda) Bk Par '53/'68
062 w'45 fre1/eng2 fc.S L'Expulsé (5,000w) Per Par '46...
063 w'45 fre1/eng2 fc.S Le Calmant (5,500w) Cn Par '55...
064 w'45 fre1/eng2 fc.S La Fin (9,000w) Cn Par '55...
065 w'45 eng1/fre2 fc.S Premier amour (7,000w) Bk Par '70...
066 w'45 fre1 crt La Peinture des van Velde Per Par '46
067 w'45 eng1 bR McGreevy on Yeats (700w) Per Dublin '45
068 w'46 fre1 fc.S Suite Per Par '46
069 p'46 fre1 poe Poèmes 1938-1939 (12) Per Par '46
070 w'46 fre1/eng2 fc.L Mercier et Camier (212 pages) Bk Par '70
071 w'46 eng1 poe Saint Lô (5 lines) Per Dublin '46
072 w'47 fre1 drm Eleutheria not published
073 w'47 fre1 poe Mort de A. D. Per Par '55
074 w'47 fre1 poe vive morte ma seule saison Per Par '55
075 w'48 fre1/eng2 poe Trois poèmes Per Par'48
076 w'48 fre1 crt Peintres de l'empêchement Per Par '48
077 w'48 fre1/eng2 fc.L Malone meurt (50,000w) Bk Par '51
078 w'48 fre1/eng2 drm En attendant Godot Bk Par '52
079 w'49 fre1 poe bon bon il est un pays per Par '55
080 w'49 eng1 crt Three Dialogues per Par '49
081 w'50 fre1/eng2 fc.S Textes pour Rien (13) bk Par '58
082 w'51 fre1 corr On Works to 1951. Cn Lon '83
083 w'51 fre1/eng2 fc.L Molloy bk Par '51
084 w'52 fre1 crt Henri Hayden homme-peintre.Per Genf'55
085 w'53 fre1/eng2 fc.L L'Innomable bk Par '53
086 w'54 fre1 crt Hommage à Jack B. Yeats per Par '54
087 w'55 eng1/fre2 fc.M From an Abandoned Work per Dub '56
088 w'56 eng1/fre2 drm All That Fall, play for radio bk NY '57
089 w'56 fre1/eng2 drm Acte sans paroles I Cn Par '57
090 w'56 fre1/eng2 drm Actes sans paroles II Cn Par '66
091 w'56 fre1/eng2 drm Fin de partie Cn Par '57
092 w'58 eng1 corr On Endgame Cn Lon '83
093 w'58 eng1/fre2 drm Krapp's Last Tape per NY '58
094 w'58 fre1 crt Bram van Velde (46w) Cn Par '58
095 w'59 eng1 drm Embers, A piece for radio per NY '59
096 w'59 fre1/eng2 drm Fragment de théâtre per Par '74
097 w'60 fre1/eng2 drm Fragment de théâtre (II) per Par '78
098 w'60 fre1 drm Esquisse radiophonique per Par '73
099 w'60 fre1/eng2 drm Pochade radiophonique per Par '75
100 w'60 fre1 crt Henri Hayden (73w) Cn Par '60
101 w'61 eng1/fre2 drm Happy Days bk NY'61
102 w'61 eng1/fre2 drm Words and Music per NY'62
103 w'61 fre1/eng2 fc.l Comment c'est bk Par '61
104 w'62 fre1/eng2 drm Cascando cnFkfrt'63
105 w'63 eng1/fre2 drm Play {fp in German!} perHanover'63
106 w'63 eng1/fre2 drm Film cnLon'67
107 w'64 eng1 fc.s All Strange Away bk NY '76
108 w'64 eng1 corr On Play (to G. Devine) cn Lon '83
109 w'65 eng1/fre2 drm Eh Joe cn Lon '67
110 w'65 fre1/eng2 fc.S Imagination morte imaginez per Par '65
111 w'65 eng1/fre2 drm Come and Go bkLon'67
112 w'66 fre1/eng2 crt Pour Avigdor Arikha cnParis'66
113 p'66 fre1 drm Comédie et actes divers cnParis'66
114 w'66 fre1/eng2 fc.s Assez cnParis'66
115 w'66 fre1/eng2 fc.s Bing bkParis'66
116 w'67 ger1/eng2 crt On Endgame: Q &A cnWBerlin'67
117 w'67 eng1 corr On Murphy (to S.Kennedy) cn Lon '83
118 p'67 eng1 fc.s No's Knife cn Lon '67
119 w'67 fre1 fc.s Dans le cylindre per Paris '67
120 w'67 fre1/eng2 fc.m Le Dépeupleur bk Paris '71
121 w'68 fre1 fc.s L'Issue bk Paris '68
122 w'68 fre1 fc.s Texte bk Paris '68
123 w'69 fre1/eng2 fc.s Sans bk Paris '69
124 w'69 fre1 fc.s Foirade I per Paris' 72
125 w'69 fre1 fc.s Foirade II per Paris '74
126 w'69 fre1 fc.s Foirade III per Paris '74
127 w'69 fre1 fc.s Foirade IV per Paris '74
128 w'69 fre1 fc.s Foirade V per Paris '74
129 w'69 eng1/fre1 drm Breath (?per) NY '69
130 w'70 fre1/eng2 fc.s Pour finir encore bk Paris '76
131 w'70 fre1/eng2 fc.s Immobile bk Paris '76
132 w'72 eng1 fc.s The North bk Lon '72
133 w'72 eng1/fre2 drm Not I bk Lon '73
134 w'73 fre1/eng2 fc.s Au loin un oiseau bk NY '73
135 w'74 eng1 poetry dread nay (64 lines) cn Lon '77
136 w'74 eng1/fre2 drm That Time bk NY '76
137 w'74 eng1 poetry Something There (67 lines) per(NY?)'75
138 w'75 eng1/fre2 drm Footfalls/Pas bkLon'75
139 w'75 eng1 drm Ghost Trio, A play for television cnNY'76
140 w'76 fre1 fc.s Se voir cn Paris '76
141 w'76 fre1/eng2 fc.s Pour finir encore et autres foirades [8] cn Paris '76
142 w'76 eng1 poe thither (17 lines) cn Lon '77
143 w'76 eng1 drm ... but the clouds ... cn NY '76
144 w'77 eng1 drm Ends and Odds cn Lon '77
145 w'78 eng fc.S Six Residua cn Lon '78
146 p'78 fre drm Pas suivi de quatre esquisses cn Par '78
147 w'78 fre1 poe Mirlitonades (35) cn Par '78
148 w'78 fre1 poe Noire soeur (5 lines) cn Par '78
149 w'78 fre1 poe Pas à pas (7 lines) cn Cologne '78
150 w'78 fre1 poe A bout de songes un bouquin (4 line)cn Paris '79
151 w'78 fre1 poe Le nain nonagénaire (4 lines) cn Par '79
152 w'79 eng1/fre2 drm A Piece of Monologue bk Lon '82
153 w'79 fre1 fc.S Un soir per Par '80
154 w'80 eng1 fc.S [UNTITLED] per USA '81
155 w'80 eng1/fre2 fc.M Company bk Lon '80
156 w'80 fre1 poe Qu'à lever la tête per USA '80
157 w'80 eng1/fre2 drm Rockaby bk Lon '82
158 w'81 eng1 poe PSS (12 lines) per USA '82
159 w'81 fre1/eng2 drm Mal vu mal dit bk Par '81
160 w'81 eng1/fre2 drm Ohio Impromptu bk NY '81
161 p'81 eng1 drm+fc.s Rockaby and other Short Pieces (4)cn NY '81
162 w'82 fre1/eng2 drm Catastrophe cn Par '82
163 p'82 fre drm Catastrophe et autres dramaticules(5) cn Par '82
164 w'82 eng1 drm Nacht und Traüme bk Lon '84
165 w'82 eng1 drm Quad bk Lon '84
166 p'82 eng1 drm Three Occasional Pieces bk Lon '82
167 w'83 eng1 fc.S Worstward Ho bk Lon '83
168 w'83 eng1/fre2 drm What Where per NY '84
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