Slimming for the Beach

Some lovely quotes in The Guardian from Beck­ett Remem­ber­ing Remem­ber­ing Beck­ett, to be pub­lished by Blooms­bury next month, in good time for Beckett’s cen­te­nary in April. Here’s just part of one, from Paul Auster:

Then, out of the blue, five or 10 min­utes later, he leant across the table and said, ‘You really liked it, huh? You really thought it was good?’ This was Samuel Beck­ett, remem­ber, and not even he had any grasp of the value of his work. No writer ever knows, not even the best ones. ‘Yes,’ I said to him. ‘I really thought it was good.’

Scenes from the life of Sam