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ACKNOWLEDGMENIS
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We are greatly indebted to Enikö Sepsi and the Käroli Gäspär University ofthe
Reformed Church in Hungary for hosting our 2017 Samuel Beckett Working
Group meeting and facilitating the birth of Influencing Beckett / Beckett
Influencing. Ihis book would simply not exist without their encouragement
and support. Itis also a pleasure to acknowledge our gratitude to the Embassy
of Ireland and their generosity, which was a significant contribution to the
successful launch of our meeting. We truly appreciate that the Embassy has
recognized the importance of this special event and its professional and
scholarly benefits. Finally, we are grateful to all our contributors for their
hard work, devotion and patience as, over the course of the years, this book
has materialized. The final editing rounds have coincided with the COVID-19
pandemic crisis that has hit the world and changed our lives entirely. We are
especially thankful to the proofreader Bernard Adams and all our authors for
their cooperation and availability even at the worst oftimes.