BECKETT, Samuel. Watt. Paris: Collection Merlin, The Olympia Press. 1953.
8vo. Purple paper covers with black lettering: pp. 254; slight vertical creasing to spine; minor foxing to fore-edge, otherwise near fine.
First limited edition, number 68 of 1100.
Although it remained unpublished until 1953, Watt, Beckett’s second published novel, was written a decade earlier in the South of France while in hiding from German occupying forces during WWII (having done significant work as part of the French Resistance). One of the strangest, and funniest, works of the twentieth century.
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