Nabokov on Beckett's French
(ConversationalReading) From a nice essay on Beckett in the Boston Review:
This thought coalesced into a conviction. Thereafter, Beckett, who so valued control over his work and the paring down of language to its essence, chose French as his primary writing medium be
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