Digital Manuscript ProjectNot I / Pas moi
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Transcribed by: Pim Verhulst, Dirk Van Hulle & James Little
Holding Library: University of Reading (MS 1396/4/25)
Abbreviated in the Manuscript Chronology as FM1.
Untitled original manuscript of Samuel Beckett's translation of Not I into French. 27 x 21 cm. 5 leaves. Dated 1 March 1973 and 13 March 1973. There are
no stage directions, and the entire text is crossed through. Written and corrected
in black ink. Pagination by Beckett in black ink, ff. 2-5. Corrections in text and,
infrequently, margin. Text heavily corrected in itself. Doodles on f. 2, adjacent
to the breakdown in composition of the opening section denoted by a space and change
of ink. Despite abandoning this draft, Beckett did perform much correction on the
text, most notably the later portion, ff. 3-5.
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Editors: James Little and Vincent Neyt