"Ping" is a short story written 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 tragicomic expe ...

in French (originally "Bing") in 1966. It was later translated into English by Beckett and published in 1967. David Lodge has described it 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.

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