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"The Capital of the Ruins" is a short piece of reportage by
"The Capital of the Ruins" is a short piece of reportage by Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal and tragicomic expe ...
written in 1946.
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Originally written for broadcast by Irish radio, it deals with the Irish hospital inSt. Lô
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. The title of the piece derives from a booklet of photographs of the bombed-out city entitled ''St. Lô, Capitale des Ruines, 5 et 7 Juin 1944''.
The text is dated 10 June 1946 signed by Samuel Beckett, but there remains a controversy whether it was broadcast or not. It was discovered among the archives of Radio Telefís Éireann in 1983 and published in 1986 by Eoin O'Brien in ''The Beckett Country'', and later that same year in ''As No Other Dare Fail: For Samuel Beckett on His 80th Birthday by His Friends and Admirers''. It is also collected in Beckett's '' Complete Short Prose 1929–1989'', published in 1995.
References
Davies, William (2020). ''Samuel Beckett and the Second World War''. London: Bloomsbury. {{DEFAULTSORT:Capital of the Ruins Works by Samuel Beckett