Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett was one of the most profoundly
original writers of the 20th century. He gave expression to the anguish
and isolation of the individual consciousness with a purity and
minimalism that have altered the shape of world literature. A
tremendously influential poet and dramatist, Beckett spoke of his prose
fiction as the important writing, the medium in which he distilled his
ideas most powerfully. Here, for the first time, his short prose is
gathered in a definitive, complete volume by leading Beckett scholar S.
E. Gontarski.