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The Complete Short Prose 1929–1989
''The Complete Short Prose 1929–1989'' is a collection which includes all of Samuel Beckett's works written in prose, with the exception of his novels, novellas from '' Nohow On'', and '' More Pricks Than Kicks'' which is considered "as much a novel as a collection of stories".Gontarski, S. E. "From Unabandoned Works: Samuel Beckett's Short Prose" Introduction to ''The Complete Short Prose 1929-1989''. page xiii. The book was edited by S. E. Gontarski and published by Grove Press Grove Press is an American publishing imprint that was founded in 1947. Imprints include: Black Cat, Evergreen, Venus Library, and Zebra. Barney Rosset purchased the company in 1951 and turned it into an alternative book press in the United S ... in 1995. Contents * Introduction by S. E. Gontarski * Assumption (1929) * Sedendo et Quiescendo (1932) * Text (1932) * A Case in a Thousand (1934) * First Love (1946) * Stories and Texts for Nothing: ** The Expelled (1946) ** The Calmative (1946) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ping (short Story)
"Ping" is a short story written by Samuel Beckett in French (originally "Bing") in 1966. Beckett later translated it into English and published it in 1967. The French version was set to music by the composer Jean-Yves Bosseur with Beckett's help in 1981 and redone in 2001. David Lodge has described "Ping" as: "the rendering of the consciousness of a person confined in a small, bare, white room, a person who is evidently under extreme duress, and probably at the last gasp of life."Lodge, David. "Some Ping Understood" ''Encounter'', February 1968. Pages 85-89. "Ping" is a very compact short story punctuated only by periods. The story is barely two pages but is usually presented in a justified alignment to heighten the feeling of claustrophobia. As noted by Dan O'Hara, "The density of ''Ping'''s prose style is its most immediate and most intriguing aspect; it seems condensed or undiluted. Like César's compressed sculptures of crushed cars, all the constituent elements are squashed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Short Story Collections By Samuel Beckett
Short may refer to: Places * Short (crater), a lunar impact crater on the near side of the Moon * Short, Mississippi, an unincorporated community * Short, Oklahoma, a census-designated place People * Short (surname) * List of people known as the Short Companies * Short Brothers, a British aerospace company * Short Brothers of Sunderland, a former English shipbuilder Computing and technology * Short circuit, an accidental connection between two nodes of an electrical circuit * Short integer, a computer datatype Other uses * Short film, a cinema format, also called a short * Short (finance), stock-trading position * Short (cricket), fielding positions closer to the batsman * SHORT syndrome, a medical condition in which affected individuals have multiple birth defects * Short vowel, a vowel sound of short perceived duration * Holly Short, a fictional character in the ''Artemis Fowl'' series See also * Short time, a situation in which a civilian employee works reduced hours, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Capital Of The Ruins
"The Capital of the Ruins" is a short piece of reportage by Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish writer of novels, plays, short stories, and poems. Writing in both English and French, his literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal, and Tragicomedy, tra ... written in 1946. Discussion Originally written for broadcast by Irish radio, it deals with the Irish hospital in St. Lô. The title of the piece derives from a booklet of photographs of the bombed-out city entitled ''St. Lô, Capitale des Ruines, 5 et 7 Juin 1944''. The text is dated 10 June 1946 signed by Samuel Beckett, but there remains a controversy whether it was broadcast or not. It was discovered among the archives of Radio Telefís Éireann in 1983 and published in 1986 by Eoin O'Brien in ''The Beckett Country'', and later that same year in ''As No Other Dare Fail: For Samuel Beckett on His 80th Birthday by His Friends and Admirers''. It is also c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stirrings Still
''Stirrings Still'' is the final prose piece by Samuel Beckett, Peter Boxall. Still Stirrings : Beckett's Prose from ''Texts for Nothing'' to ''Stirrings Still''. In ''The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett'' (Dirk Van Hulle, ed.), pp. 33-47 (Cambridge University Press; 2015) written in English in 1986–89 to give his American publisher, Barney Rosset, something to publish. First published in a signed limited edition, it was later republished in the posthumous edition ''As The Story Was Told'' (1990). The piece was published in its entirety in ''The Guardian'' on 3 March 1989. This edition also included a review of the limited edition by Frank Kermode, and a piece on the history of the work's publication by John Calder. In 2004, members of Binghamton University's English Department founded a scholarly journal An academic journal (or scholarly journal or scientific journal) is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neither (short Story)
Neither is an English pronoun, adverb, and determiner signifying the absence of a choice in an either/or situation. Neither may also refer to: * ''Neither'' (opera), the only opera by Morton Feldman * "neither" (short story), a very short story by Samuel Beckett {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Evening (short Story)
One Evening may refer to: * "One Evening" (short story), a story by Samuel Beckett included in '' The Complete Short Prose 1929-1989'' * "One Evening", a song by The Jesus Lizard from ''Head A head is the part of an organism which usually includes the ears, brain, forehead, cheeks, chin, eyes, nose, and mouth, each of which aid in various sensory functions such as sight, hearing, smell, and taste. Some very simple ani ...'' * " One Evening (Feist song)", a song by Feist from ''Let It Die'' {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fizzles
The ''Fizzles'' are eight short prose pieces written by Samuel Beckett: * Fizzle 1 e is barehead* Fizzle 2 orn came always* Fizzle 3 ''Afar a Bird'' * Fizzle 4 gave up before birthref name='FIZZLE4'/> * Fizzle 5 losed place* Fizzle 6 ld earth* Fizzle 7 ''Still'' * Fizzle 8 ''For to end yet again'' Some fizzles are unnamed and are identified by their numbers or first few words, which appear above in brackets. Except for ''Still'', which he wrote in English (1972), Beckett wrote the rest in French (1960) and translated them into English later. Hardback (1976) and paperback (1977) English versions were published by Grove Press. The fizzles are also included in Grove's collection '' The Complete Short Prose 1929–1989''. In 1976, a French version, ''Pour finir encore et autres foirades'', was published by Editions de Minuit and another English version by Calder Publications. Because Beckett felt that the order of presentation was unimportant, each of the three publishers adop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lost Ones (Beckett)
''The Lost Ones'' () is a novella by Samuel Beckett, who abandoned it in 1966 and completed it in 1970. It was then first published in French and translated into English by the author himself the following year. Background Samuel Beckett derived the title ''Le Dépeupleur'' from a line in Alphonse de Lamartine's 1820 poem " L'Isolement": "Un seul être vous manque, et tout est dépeuplé" (You miss a single being, and everything is depopulated). He drafted the story between October 1965 and May 1966 before abandoning it because he could not figure out the ending. Cohn, Ruby. Back to Beckett'. Princeton University Press, 1973. Later that year, the unwieldy draft was transmuted into "" (" Ping") which adapted two passages from "The Lost Ones". Beckett wrote, "''Bing'' may be regarded as the result or miniaturization of ..." The story comes from a period where Beckett was implementing the architectural theories of Mies van der Rohe and Adolf Loos who said that "ornament is a cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lessness (short Story)
"Lessness" is a short story by Samuel Beckett originally written in French as "Sans" in 1969, and later translated into English by the author. It was partly inspired by John Cage and the experimental music of the 1960s. The story was included in a book of short stories under the title ''Friendship'' launched in 1990 to coincide with the fourth anniversary of the kidnapping in Beirut of the British television journalist John McCarthy John McCarthy may refer to: Government * John George MacCarthy (1829–1892), Member of Parliament for Mallow constituency, 1874–1880 * John McCarthy (Irish politician) (1862–1893), Member of Parliament for the Mid Tipperary constituency, .... "Lessness" was written when Beckett wrote sixty sentences on different pieces of paper, put them in a box, and drew them out. He then repeated the process. References 1969 short stories Short stories by Samuel Beckett {{1960s-story-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imagination Dead Imagine
"Imagination Dead Imagine" is a short prose text by Samuel Beckett first published in French in '' Les Lettres nouvelles'' in 1965. Its first English publication was a translation in ''The Sunday Times'' in 1965 followed by a trade edition by Beckett's London-based publisher, Calder and Boyars, later that year. Plot Developed as an offshoot of the longer prose work, '' All Strange Away'', and consistent with Beckett's preoccupation with cylinders and closed spaces in his work of the 1960s, the text explores "the theme of the dying imagination yet conscious of its own activity". Two white bodies are situated back to back inside a skull-like rotunda or vault. On the verge of extinction, the imagination of an unspecified being succeeds in imagining two bodies enclosed in a silent and motionless black and white environment subject to varying degrees of heat and cold with a brief interlude of grey. According to the painter Avigdor Arikha, an intimate of the author, the rotunda was ins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish writer of novels, plays, short stories, and poems. Writing in both English and French, his literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal, and Tragicomedy, tragicomic episodes of life, often coupled with black comedy and literary nonsense. A major figure of Irish literature and one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, he is credited with transforming the genre of the modern theatre. Best remembered for his tragicomedy play ''Waiting for Godot'' (1953), he is considered to be one of the last Modernism, modernist writers, and a key figure in what Martin Esslin called the "Theatre of the Absurd." For his lasting literary contributions, Beckett received the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation." A resident of Paris for most of his adult life, Beckett wrote in both Frenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
