First Love (short story)

First Love (short story)

"First Love" is a short story by Samuel Beckett, written in 1946 and first published in 1973.

The narrator tells how he is befriended by a strange woman on a park bench where he slept after becoming homeless.

A stage version was performed by Ralph Fiennes at the Sydney Festival in 2007.

External links

[http://www.calderpublications.com/books/0714511242.html Book published by Calder]


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