''The Complete Short Prose 1929–1989'' is a collection which includes all of
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 ...
's works written in
prose
Prose is language that follows the natural flow or rhythm of speech, ordinary grammatical structures, or, in writing, typical conventions and formatting. Thus, prose ranges from informal speaking to formal academic writing. Prose differs most n ...
, 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)
** The End (1946)
** Texts for Nothing (1950-1952)
*
From an Abandoned Work (1954-1955)
* The Image (1956)
*
All Strange Away (1963-1964)
*
Imagination Dead Imagine (1965)
* Enough (1965)
*
Ping (1966)
*
Lessness (1969)
*
The Lost Ones (1966,1970)
*
Fizzles (1973-1975)
** Fizzle 1
e is barehead** Fizzle 2
orn came always** Fizzle 3 ''Afar a Bird''
** Fizzle 4
gave up before birth** Fizzle 5
losed place** Fizzle 6
ld earth** Fizzle 7 ''Still''
** Fizzle 8 ''For to end yet again''
* Heard in the Dark 1
* Heard in the Dark 2
*
One Evening
* As the story was told (1973)
* The Cliff (1975)
*
neither (1976)
*
Stirrings Still (1988)
* Appendix I: Variations on a "Still" Point
** Sounds (1973)
** Still 3 (1973)
* Appendix II: Faux Départs (1965)
* Appendix III: Nonfiction
**
The Capital of the Ruins (1946)
* Notes on the Texts
* Bibliography of Short Prose in English
* Illustrated Editions of Short Prose
Notes
Short story collections by Samuel Beckett
1995 short story collections
Grove Press books
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