Abstract: In a letter addressed to Thomas MacGreevy on 7 August 1930, Samuel Beckett develops a violent attack on Gabriele d’Annunzio, in particular, the manner in which he speaks of pomegranates in Il Fuoco. Following path traversing Proust and Dream of Fair to middling Women, we can see that, on a par with his epistolary activity of this period, d’Annunzio allowed Beckett to perfect his naissant conception of writing without style, which is the contrary of that of the Italian writer.
