"neither" is a very short story by
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal and Tragicomedy, tr ...
written in 1976 and originally published in the ''
Journal of Beckett Studies
The ''Journal of Beckett Studies'' publishes academic articles relating to the work of Samuel Beckett, (1906–1989), the Irish poet, dramatist and playwright. Published twice yearly by Edinburgh University Press in April and September, it was ...
'' No. 4 (Spring 1979). The title is uncapitalized, and the story is composed of only eighty-seven words, divided into ten lines, and has no punctuation except for three commas.
Though originally published with line breaks suggestive of a poem, Beckett refused to include the piece in his ''Collected Poems'' because he considered it a story. As a result, the work was omitted from the 1984 collection ''The Collected Shorter Prose 1945-1980'' but later restored in ''
The Complete Short Prose 1929-1989''.
Short stories by Samuel Beckett
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