Synge by Colm Toibin

Author:Colm Toibin [Toibin, Colm]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Theatre
Publisher: Carysfort Press Limited
Published: 2005-04-22T23:00:00+00:00

March 24:

Too wet to walk to Montparnasse cemetery to visit Beckett’s grave. It had somehow seemed like the best way to mark the anniversary of Synge’s death. Instead I stay in and browse again in the plays. It still pleases me to think The Well of the Saints was one of Beckett’s favourite plays, that he may have been reading it in his last days. A few weeks ago José Férez K., who spent an afternoon in Paris smoking and drinking coffee with Beckett in the sixties after he’d directed End Game in England, told me that he sometimes goes and puts a cigarette on the grave. I like this simple act of remembrance. He also told me about his friend William Burroughs fronting up in Paris a bit the worse for wear, having written to Beckett to say he’d like to see him. Burroughs and a companion were ushered into the apartment, where Beckett was standing in profile in a twilight window. He never spoke to them, never said a word. But Burroughs’ request had been granted - he did get to see Beckett. When the rain stops I get to see the grave: no cigarettes - a single red rose and three guitar plectrums. Maybe someone is confusing him with Jim Morrison … Even sodden tobacco seems more appealing.

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