Pulitzer Prize winner translates herself in 'Roman Stories'

After World War II, Ireland's Samuel Beckett began writing some works in French and then translating them into English. Swapping his mother tongue for his adopted language allowed him to "write without style." Out went the puns and other linguistic trickery; in came spare, stripped-back writing that

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