Jennifer Hodgson & Lara Pawson on Samuel Beckett

Seventy years after the publication of Samuel Beckett’s first novel in English, Faber reissued Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnameable with ritzy new covers and fresh introductions. To celebrate, Lara Pawson, author of Spent Light, and Jennifer Hodgson, whose biography of Ann Quin is forthcoming, were in conversation about Beckett’s fiction. ‘Oh the stories I could tell you if I were easy,’ as Beckett wrote, ‘What a rabble in my head, what a gallery of moribunds.’