Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
En attendant Godot / Waiting for Godot

MS-BNF-MY-440

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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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