Comments on: Cover Love: Faber 80 Beckett Series

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» In space, no one can hear you kern - More On Design — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 11:43:11 +0000

[...] really want to like these new covers from Faber & Faber, but I just find them incredibly dull. I want to like them because they are [...]

By: David

David — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:52:30 +0000

These seem quite disappointing when compared to the simple, modern designs that Calder employed. The new editions are welcome, but the covers make them seem like school editions somehow. The titling shouts too much, for works so much about tracings, stirrings and above all ‘lessness’

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:44:16 +0000

Emm…looks like they have raised the total number of titles in the series to 20. Well spotted Stewart. Faber had originally told me ’18′. Maybe it’s just a webpage typo?

Oh and as for editing your miscount of covers out? Nah! It shows that even the great Stewart McAbney can make a rare mistake sometimes – and that gives us mere mortals some semblance of hope.

By: Stewart

Stewart — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:17:17 +0000

Stewart, there are eighteen covers shown here?!?

Whoops! It’s late. We can edit that bit out, can’t we?

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:13:27 +0000

Stewart, there are eighteen covers shown here?!?

By: Stewart

Stewart — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:12:11 +0000

When I say ‘first novel’, I suppose I mean ‘last novel’, given that he wrote it, shelved it, and it didn’t see light of day until he’d died.

Just looked at the Faber site, it says there’s going to be twenty volumes in the set. Makes sense, being a nice round number.

By: Stewart

Stewart — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:06:42 +0000

They’re a series of 18 books...

Yet only seventeen covers. I must know which is missing.

Rosenbloom said:
This is the first time all of Samuel Beckett’s work has been collected together and published by a single publishing house.

Could the eighteenth be his first novel, then, Dreams Of Fair To Middling Women? I've got the Grove Centenery editions of Samuel Beckett, which is four hardbacks with the complete works excepting, as per Paul Auster's introduction inside, the aforementioned Dreams Of... and some poetry that Beckett never himself translated from the French.

By: bess

bess — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:14:10 +0000

always cool~~