Beckett's first 'literary landmark' (St Petersburg Times) is a wonderfully savoury introduction to the Nobel Prize-winning author. Written in 1932, when the twenty-six-year-old Beckett was struggling to make ends meet, the novel offers a rare and revealing portrait of the artist as a young man. When submitted to several publishers, all of them found it too literary, too scandalous or too risky; it was only published posthumously in 1992. As the story begins, Belacqua - a young version of Molloy, whose love is divided between two women, Smeraldina-Rima and the little Alba - 'wrestles with his lusts and learning across vocabularies and continents, before a final "relapse into Dublin"' (New Yorker). Youthfully exuberant and Joycean in tone, Dream is a work of extraordinary virtuosity.
- ISBN13 9780714542126
- Publish Date 1 June 1993 (first published 1 September 1992)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 February 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Alma Books Ltd
- Imprint Calder Publications Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English