''Stirrings Still'' is the final prose piece by

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. 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 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 ''

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'' on 3 March 1989. This edition also included a review of the limited edition by

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, and a piece on the history of the work's publication by John Calder. In 2004, members of

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's English Department founded a

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called '' Stirrings Still: The International Journal of Existential Literature'', which was named after Beckett's piece.

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*Beckett, Samuel. ''Stirrings Still'' London: John Calder, 1999. {{Beckett-prose Short stories by Samuel Beckett