The Capital of the Ruins

The Capital of the Ruins

"The Capital of the Ruins" is a short piece of reportage by Samuel Beckett written in 1946. Originally written for broadcast by Irish radio, it deals with the Irish hospital in St. Lô. The title of the piece derives from a booklet of photographs of the bombed-out city entitled "St. Lô, Capital des Ruines, 5 et 7 Juin 1944". It is unclear whether the piece was ever actually broadcast.The piece 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.


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