John Sutherland

A Beckett fagend rescued from a bin

A review of Samuel Beckett’s ‘Echo’s Bones’. Considered too Beckettian for 1933, this recovered short-story is an allusive riot

Samuel Beckett in Paris in the 1970s [Getty Images/Shutterstock/iStock/Alamy] 
issue 12 April 2014

  • Echo’s Bones

    Samuel Beckett

    Grove Press, pp. 128

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