Comment on Rare Audio: Samuel Beckett Reads From His Novel Watt by Ed Smith

Samuel Beck­ett was noto­ri­ous­ly shy around record­ing devices. So the audio above of Beck­ett read­ing a pair of his poems is extreme­ly rare. At one point dur­ing their dis­cus­sions, Beck­ett recit­ed sev­er­al pas­sages from his third but sec­ond-pub­lished nov­el, Watt. Har­vey also record­ed Beck­ett read­ing a prose pas­sage from the book. Relat­ed con­tent:Samuel Beck­ett SpeaksSamuel Beck­ett Directs His Absur­dist Play Wait­ing for Godot (1985)Find Works by Beck­ett in our Free Audio Books and Free eBooks col­lec­tions