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Abandoned Prose is a publication with texts by Nathan O’Donnell and design by Clare Bell. It is the outcome of a Samuel Beckett Creative Fellowship at Trinity College Dublin, part of a series of fellowships organised between Trinity and the Samuel Beckett Research Centre, Reading University, that facilitate artists to respond to Beckett’s archives.
Included in the Samuel Beckett Collection at Trinity College Dublin is a faded l’Aigle- brand notebook (catalogue reference: TCD MS 4662) with a small accompanying index card that categorises its contents according to the following four sections: ‘abandoned theatre / abandoned prose / Fragments of translation of Malone meurt / Epistolary scraps’. Having counted the number of lines per page, allowing an average word count per line, and factoring in the many scrawled deletions and blacked-out lines and sections, the section of ‘abandoned prose’ has been calculated to come to a total of 2503 words.
This is also the total number of words reproduced in this book, the text of which is composed of extracts and fragments of prose from old projects – essays, short stories, scripts, books – that had previously been, for whatever reason, shelved. For this publication, these prose extracts have simply been added to one another until the word count was reached.
Softcover
32 pages
145 × 210 mm
