Volume 16, Number 6 · April 8, 1971

Original Sin and Dog Biscuits

By Nigel Dennis
Collected Works of Samuel Beckett
by Samuel Beckett

Grove Press, 16 volumes pp., $9.50

A member of the Swedish Academy said of Samuel Beckett's winning the Nobel Prize: 'In the realms of annihilation, the writing of Samuel Beckett rises like a Miserere from all mankind, its muffled minor key sounding liberation to the oppressed and comfort to those in need.'



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