12.5.09

More Pricks Than Kicks: Beckett condensed by John Crace

A playful adaptation published in the Guardian
Samuel Beckett

'It was morning and Belacqua was stuck in the first canti of the moon. He was in stasis between Infernal allusion to Dante and a youthful homage to Joyce. The Master. "What would Stephen Daedalus do?" He asked himself.'

Samuel Beckett's early collection of short stories, More Pricks Than Kicks, has been condensed for John Crace's Digested Reads series. You can listen to the result at Guardian Online by clicking here, or, alternatively, you can read it here.