''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 novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal and tragicomic expe ...
's works written in
prose, 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 United States of America, American Imprint (trade name), 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 in ...
in 1995.
Contents
* Introduction by S. E. Gontarski
*
Assumption
Assumption, in Christianity, refers to the Assumption of Mary, a belief in the taking up of the Virgin Mary into heaven.
Assumption may also refer to:
Places
* Assumption, Alberta, Canada
* Assumption, Illinois, United States
** Assumption Town ...
(1929)
* Sedendo et Quiescendo (1932)
* Text (1932)
* A Case in a Thousand (1934)
*
First Love (1946)
*
Stories and Texts for Nothing
''Stories and Texts for Nothing'' is a collection of stories by Samuel Beckett. It gathers three of Beckett's short stories ("The Expelled," "The Calmative," and "The End", all written in 1946) and the thirteen short prose pieces he named "Texts ...
:
** 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 All Strange Away is a short prose text by Samuel Beckett first published in English in 1964. A special signed edition with illustrations by Edward Gorey
Edward St. John Gorey (February 22, 1925 – April 15, 2000) was an American writer, ...
(1963-1964)
*
Imagination Dead Imagine (1965)
* Enough (1965)
*
Ping (1966)
*
Lessness (1969)
*
The Lost Ones (1966,1970)
*
Fizzles
The "fizzles" are eight short prose pieces written by Samuel Beckett:
* Fizzle 1 e is barehead* Fizzle 2 orn came always* Fizzle 3 ''Afar a Bird''
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* Fizzle 5 losed place* Fizzle 6 ld eart ...
(1973-1975)
** Fizzle 1
e is barehead** Fizzle 2
orn came always
Orn or ORN may refer to:
*Orn (name), a given name and surname
* ''Orn'', the second book in Piers Anthony's trilogy Of Man and Manta
* Offshoring Research Network, an international network researching the offshoring of business processes and ser ...
** 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 ''Stirrings Still'' is the final prose piece by Samuel Beckett,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 ( ...
(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
"The Capital of the Ruins" is a short piece of reportage by Samuel Beckett written in 1946.
Discussion
Originally written for broadcast by Irish radio, it deals with the Irish hospital in St. Lô
ST, St, or St. may refer to:
Arts and entert ...
(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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