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at Campbell College, Belfast.
September
 
First trip to Germany to visit seventeen- year-old Peggy Sinclair, a cousin on his father’s side, and her family in Kassel.
1 November
 
Arrives in Paris as an exchange
lecteur
at the École Normale Supérieure. Quickly becomes friends with his predecessor, Thomas
     McGreevy [after 1943, MacGreevy], who introduces Beckett to James Joyce and other
     influential anglophone writers and publishers.
December
 
Spends Christmas in Kassel (as also in 1929, 1930 and 1931).
1929
 
 
June
 
Publishes first critical essay (‘Dante … Bruno .Vico . . Joyce’) and first story (‘Assumption’)
     in
transition
magazine.
1930
 
 
July
 
Whoroscope
(Paris: Hours Press).
October
 
Returns to TCD to begin a two-year appointment as lecturer in French.
November
 
Introduced by MacGreevy to the painter and writer Jack B. Yeats in Dublin.
1931
 
 
March
 
Proust
(London: Chatto & Windus).
September
 
First Irish publication, the poem ‘Alba’ in
Dublin Magazine.
1932
 
 
January
 
Resigns his lectureship via telegram from Kassel and moves to Paris.
Feb.–June
 
First serious attempt at a novel, the posthumously published
Dream of Fair to Middling Women.
December
 
Story ‘Dante and the Lobster’ appears in
This Quarter
(Paris).
1933
 
 
3 May
 
Death of Peggy Sinclair from tuberculosis.
26 June
 
Death of William Beckett from a heart attack.
1934
 
 
January 
  
Moves to London and begins psychoanalysis with Wilfred Bion at the Tavistock Clinic
February
 
Negro Anthology,
edited by Nancy Cunard and with numerous translations by Beckett from the French
     (London: Wishart & Co.).
May
 
More Pricks Than Kicks
(London: Chatto & Windus).
Aug.–Sept.
 
Contributes several stories and reviews to literary magazines in London and Dublin.
1935
 
 
November
 
Echo’s Bones and Other Precipitates
, a cycle of thirteen poems (Paris: Europa Press).
1936
 
 
 
 
Returns to Dublin.
29 September
 
Leaves Ireland for a seven-month stay in Germany.
Apr.–Aug.
 
First serious attempt at a play,
Human Wishes,
about Samuel Johnson and his household.
October
 
Settles in Paris
1938
 
 
6/7 January
 
Stabbed by a street pimp in Montparnasse. Among his visitors at Hôpital Broussais
     is Suzanne Deschevaux-Dumesnil, an
acquaintance who is to become Beckett’s companion for life.
March
 
Murphy
(London: Routledge).
April
 
Begins writing poetry directly in French.
1939
 
 
3 September
 
Great Britain and France declare war on Germany. Beckett abruptly ends a visit to
     Ireland and returns to Paris the next day.
1940
 
 
June
 
Travels south with Suzanne following the Fall of France, as part of the exodus from
     the capital.
September
 
Returns to Paris.
1941
 
 
13 January 
  
Death of James Joyce in Zurich.
1 September
 
Joins the Resistance cell Gloria SMH.
1942
 
 
16 August
 
Goes into hiding with Suzanne after the arrest of close friend Alfred Péron.
6 October
 
Arrival at Roussillon, a small village in unoccupied southern France.
1944
 
 
24 August
 
Liberation of Paris.
1945
 
 
30 March
 
Awarded the Croix de Guerre.
Aug.–Dec.
 
Volunteers as a storekeeper and interpreter with the Irish Red Cross in Saint-Lô,
     Normandy.
1946
 
 
July
 
Publishes first fiction in French – a truncated version of the short story ‘Suite’
     (later to become ‘La Fin’) in
Les Temps moderne
s, owing to a misunderstanding by editors – as well as a critical essay on Dutch painters
     Geer and Bram van Velde in
Cahiers d’art.
1947
 
 
Jan.–Feb.
 
Writes first play, in French,
Eleuthéria
(published posthumously).
April
 
Murphy
, French translation (Paris: Bordas).
1948
 
 
 
 
Undertakes a number of translations commissioned by UNESCO and by Georges Duthuit.
1950
 
 
25 August
  
Death of May Beckett.
1951
 
 
March
 
Molloy
, in French (Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit).
November
 
Malone meurt
(Paris: