Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Not I / Pas moi

MS-UoR-1396-4-25

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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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