Stories and Texts for Nothing [Paperback]

Samuel Beckett (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 13, 1994

This volume brings together three of Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett’s major short stories and thirteen shorter pieces of fiction that he calls “texts for nothing.” Here, as in all his work, Beckett relentlessly strips away all but the essential to arrive at a core of truth. His prose reveals the same mastery that marks his work from Waiting for Godot and Endgame to Molloy and Malone Dies. In each of the three stories, old men displaced or expelled from the modest corners where they have been living bestir themselves in search of new corners. Told, “You can’t stay here,” they somehow, doggedly, inevitably, go on.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Grove Press (January 13, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0802150624
• ISBN-13: 978-0802150622
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #684,921 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin in 1906. He was educated at Portora Royal School and Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1927. His made his poetry debut in 1930 with Whoroscope and followed it with essays and two novels before World War Two. He wrote one of his most famous plays, Waiting for Godot, in 1949 but it wasn't published in English until 1954. Waiting for Godot brought Beckett international fame and firmly established him as a leading figure in the Theatre of the Absurd. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. Beckett continued to write prolifically for radio, TV and the theatre until his death in 1989.

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11 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ..but no one really knows what an ostrich sees in the sand.., June 17, 2004

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Albrecht von mERzbau (by the little green man) - See all my reviews

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11 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not for Nothing, August 13, 2000

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Mugsy Malloy "Lonely chimp" (Floral Park, NY United States) - See all my reviews

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Bloody bleeding brilliant!