Digital Manuscript ProjectEn attendant Godot / Waiting for Godot
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Transcribed by: Dirk Van Hulle & Pim Verhulst
Holding Library: Bibliothèque Nationale de France (MS MY/440)
Abbreviated in the Manuscript Chronology as FN
Exercise book 8 ½ x 7 in. Rectos filled beginning to end, then versos end to beginning.
Earliest version. Started 9 Oct 1948, finished 29 Jan 1949. The original notebook
of En attendant Godot remained in Beckett's possession until his death, when it entered the safekeeping
of his French publisher. In 2006, Jérôme Lindon's family deposited the manuscript
at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, in accordance with Beckett's wishes.
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En attendant Godot / Waiting for Godot © 2017 Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscript Project.
Editors: Dirk Van Hulle, Pim Verhulst and Vincent Neyt