"On Beckett: Essays and Criticism” is the first collection of writings about the Nobel Prize-winning author that covers the entire spectrum of his work, and also affords a rare glimpse of the private Beckett.

The Essential Beckett: A Preface to the Second Edition ? S. E. Gontarski; A Beckett Chronology; Acknowledgments; Crritics and Crriticism: ?Getting Known?? introduction by S. E. Gontarski; PRELIMINARIES: Beckett and ?Merlin? ? Richard W. Seaver; Samuel Beckett and the Visual Arts: The Embarrassment of Allegory ? Dougald McMillan; When is the End Not the End? The Idea of Fiction in Beckett ? Wolfgang Iser; THE PAGE: ?Murphy? and the Uses of Repetition ? Rubin Rabinovitz; ?Watt? ? Lawrence E. Harvey; ?Mercier and Camier?: Narration, Dante, and the Couple ? Eric P. Levy; Molloy's Silence ? Georges Bataille; Where Now? Who Now? ? Maurice Blanchot; The Voice and Its Words: ?How It Is?? J. E. Dearlove; The Unnamable's First Voice? ? Chris Ackerley; Between Verse and Prose: Beckett and the New Poetry ? Marjorie Perloff; ?Worstward Ho? ? Dougald McMillan; THE STAGE: MacGowran on Beckett ? interview by Richard Toscan; Blin on Beckett ? interview by Tom Bishop; Working with Beckett ? Alan Schneider; Notes from the Underground: ?Waiting for Godot? and ?Endgame? ? Herbert Blau; Beckett Directs ?Godot? ? Walter D. Asmus; Beckett Directs: ?Endgame? and ?Krapp's Last Tape? ? Ruby Cohn; Literary Allusions in ?Happy Days? ? S. E. Gontarski; Counterpoint, Absence, and the Medium in Beckett's ?Not I? ? Paul Lawley; Rehearsal Notes for the German Premiere of Beckett's ?That Time? and ?Footfalls? ? Walter D. Asmus; ?Footfalls? ? James Knowlson; Samuel Beckett and the Art of Radio ? Martin Esslin; Light, Sound, Movement, and Action in Beckett's ?Rockaby? ? Enoch Brater; Beckett's ?Ohio Impromptu?: A View from the Isle of Swans ? Pierre Astier; ?Quad? and ?Catastrophe? ? S. E. Gontarski; CODA: Burroughs with Beckett in Berlin ? edited by Victor Bockris; Notes on Contributors