Research Catalog

Title

Samuel Beckett: the complete short prose, 1929-1989 / edited and with an introduction and notes by S.E. Gontarski.

Author

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989

Publication

New York : Grove Press, c1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

Gontarski, S. E.

Description

xxxii, 294 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

An anthology of short stories by a poet and dramatist who considered his prose fiction "the important writing." The collection represents the seeds of creation for his later works in which he looked at the tragicomic plight of man. The titles range from Assumption, published in a magazine when Beckett was 23, to Stirrings Still, written when he was 82.

Uniform Title

Prose works. English

Alternative Title

• Prose works.
• Complete short prose, 1929-1989

Subject

• Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 > Translations into English
• 1900-1999
• French prose literature > Translations into English

Genre/Form

Translations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-292)

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Assumption -- Sedendo et quiescendo -- Text -- A case in a thousand -- First love -- Stories. The expelled ; The calmative ; The end -- Texts for nothing -- From an abandoned work -- The image -- All strange away -- Imagination dead imagine -- Enough -- Ping -- Lessness -- The lost ones -- Fizzles -- Heard in the dark 1 -- Heard in the dark 2 -- One evening -- As the story was told -- The cliff -- Neither -- Stirrings still -- Variations on a "still" point -- Faux départs -- The capital of the ruins.

ISBN

0802115772

LCCN

^^^95013074^

OCLC

• 32236548
• SCSB-10697164

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library