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Echo's Bones
‘Echo's Bones’ is a short story by Samuel Beckett that was originally written in 1933. The Europa Press published a stand alone version of the story in 1935. This edition included 25 copies signed by Becket. The title is an allusion to the myth of Echo and Narcissus, in the version told in Ovid, ''Metamorphoses'', Book III. In particular, the line "Echo's bones were turned to stone" is in Beckett's ''Dream of Fair to Middling Women'' notebook. Background Beckett's collection ''More Pricks Than Kicks'', ten stories in the life and death of one Belacqua Shuah, was accepted for publication by Chatto & Windus in 1933. The editor asked Beckett for an additional story to help bulk up the physical book. Beckett agreed, and chose to place the new story after the existing ten, and did so by giving an afterlife to Belacqua. His editor, Charles Prentice, quickly rejected the story as too strange: Beckett later (1962) gave the typescript to Lawrence Harvey. The typescript and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Echo's Bones
‘Echo's Bones’ is a short story by Samuel Beckett that was originally written in 1933. The Europa Press published a stand alone version of the story in 1935. This edition included 25 copies signed by Becket. The title is an allusion to the myth of Echo and Narcissus, in the version told in Ovid, ''Metamorphoses'', Book III. In particular, the line "Echo's bones were turned to stone" is in Beckett's ''Dream of Fair to Middling Women'' notebook. Background Beckett's collection ''More Pricks Than Kicks'', ten stories in the life and death of one Belacqua Shuah, was accepted for publication by Chatto & Windus in 1933. The editor asked Beckett for an additional story to help bulk up the physical book. Beckett agreed, and chose to place the new story after the existing ten, and did so by giving an afterlife to Belacqua. His editor, Charles Prentice, quickly rejected the story as too strange: Beckett later (1962) gave the typescript to Lawrence Harvey. The typescript and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |