On Six Notebooks of Samuel Beckett’s Murphy｜Live tweets from Andrew Nash's CEIR paper 'Six Notebooks in Search of an Editor: Samuel Beckett's Murphy'
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Visiting Speaker, 26 Apr 2016: Andrew Nash on Samuel Beckett’s Murphy Notebooks cardiffbookhistory.wordpress.com/2016/04/19/vis… pic.twitter.com/5qQgrEIkqd
2016-04-20 00:23:05
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Following are live tweets from Andrew Nash's CEIR paper 'Six Notebooks in Search of an Editor: Samuel Beckett's Murphy'.
2016-04-27 01:35:52
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Carl Phelpstead introducing tonight's (& this yr's final) speaker, Andrew Nash, who will talk abt #Beckett's #Murphy pic.twitter.com/ZZt7Gxzmyn
2016-04-27 01:36:34
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In July 2015 the University of Reading received six notebooks in which Beckett composed the first draft of Murphy (1938).
2016-04-27 01:37:12
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Nash draws attention to the questions surrounding the value of literary manuscripts.
2016-04-27 01:38:08
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The publicity surrounding the manuscript exposed the commercial value of the Beckett manuscript.
2016-04-27 01:40:08
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Nash was involved in the transcription of the manuscript.
2016-04-27 01:40:52
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How do the manuscripts enrich the value of the published novel?
2016-04-27 01:42:20
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What does the revisionary process and the excised material say about the novel itself?
2016-04-27 01:43:36
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The notebooks were produced by Beckett over ten months in 1936.
2016-04-27 01:44:08
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Beckett felt unhappy about the process of composition and believed the manuscript 'reads something horrid.'
2016-04-27 01:44:56
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We don't have a record of the six weeks in which Beckett was revising the manuscript and producing the typescript of the work.
2016-04-27 01:45:47
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Beckett was enjoying the 'success of the post-Godot era'.
2016-04-27 01:46:12
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Murphy was rejected by a number of publishers, but was later published by Routledge.
2016-04-27 01:47:22
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The notebooks were bought by an east end book dealer in the 1950s.
2016-04-27 01:49:36
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In 1976, Beckett offered individual pages of the manuscript for same. In the TLS leaves of the manuscript were advertised for sale.
2016-04-27 01:50:32
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These pages of the original autograph manuscript were priced at £350 and £450 per page.
2016-04-27 01:51:51
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Beckett himself was happy to donate his notebooks to the University of Reading and had no intention to sell the pages of his manuscript.
2016-04-27 01:53:25
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In the 1990s 'Mr Stanley' contacted the university attempting to sell the notebooks to the department.
2016-04-27 01:54:55
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The six Beckett notebooks were offered for sale at €9,000,000 from 'Mr Stanley'.
2016-04-27 01:55:58
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Nash uses Philip Larkin's essay 'A Neglected Responsibility' to consider the true value of literary manuscripts.
2016-04-27 01:56:55
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Beckett was concerned with the historical value of his manuscripts.
2016-04-27 01:57:17