The Complete Short Prose 1929-1989 (Beckett)
- The Complete Short Prose 1929-1989 (Beckett)
"The Complete Short Prose 1929-1989" is a collection which includes all of Samuel Beckett's works written in prose, with the exception of his novels, novellas, 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 in 1995.
Contents
* Introduction by S. E. Gontarski
* Assumption (1929)
* Sedendo et Quiescendo (1932)
* Text (1932)
* A Case in a Thousand (1934)
* First Love (1946)
* Stories and Texts for Nothing:
** 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 (1963-1964)
* Imagination Dead Imagine (1965)
* Enough (1965)
* Ping (1966)
* Lessness (1969)
* The Lost Ones (1966,1970)
* Fizzles (1973-1975)
** Fizzle 1 [He is barehead]
** Fizzle 2 [Horn came always]
** Fizzle 3 "Afar a Bird"
** Fizzle 4 [I gave up before birth]
** Fizzle 5 [Closed place]
** Fizzle 6 [Old 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)
* Cliff (1975)
* neither (1976)
* Stirrings Still (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 (1946)
* Notes on the Texts
* Bibliography of Short Prose in English
* Illustrated Editions of Short Prose
Notes
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