''Stirrings Still'' is the final prose piece 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 ...
,
[ 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
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardi ...
'' on 3 March 1989. This edition also included a review of the limited edition by
Frank Kermode
Sir John Frank Kermode, FBA (29 November 1919 – 17 August 2010) was a British literary critic best known for his 1967 work '' The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction'' and for his extensive book-reviewing and editing.
He wa ...
, and a piece on the history of the work's publication by
John Calder.
In 2004, members of
Binghamton University
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's English Department founded a
scholarly journal
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called ''
Stirrings Still: The International Journal of Existential Literature'', which was named after Beckett's piece.
References
Bibliography
*Beckett, Samuel. ''Stirrings Still'' London: John Calder, 1999.
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Short stories by Samuel Beckett