Volume 13, Number 5 · September 25, 1969
"Ssh"
By Robert M. Adams
Cascando and Other Short Dramatic Pieces
by Samuel Beckett
Grove, 79 pp., $1.75 (paper)
When it was first announced for publication, Samuel Beckett's new collection, Cascando and Other Short Dramatic Pieces, bore the title Cascando and Other Residua. But as this may have suggested to the publisher such morbidphrases as 'scraping the bottom of Beckett,' the title has now been changed. Still, the fact is that the present volume consists in good part of things written more than five years ago, and entirely of things already published in England—some of them published before that on the continent. The title piece, along with 'Play' and 'Words and Music,' was published in 1964 by Faber & Faber; the other three pieces were published in 1967, two by Faber & Faber, one by Calder & Boyars. The seventy-nine pages of the present chrestomathy do indeed represent a convenient gathering of Samuel Beckett's recent activities; but they are neither very recent nor, in the crude, quantitative sense, very copious.
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