Written over three months in 1946, Mercier and Camier was Beckett\"s first post-war work, and his first novel in French. He came to regard it as a practice piece, and set it aside to write his trilogy. Mercier et Camier was finally published in 1970, and in Beckett\"s English translation four years later....

The Unnamable – so named because he knows not who he may be – is from a nameless place. He speaks of previous selves (‘all these Murphys, Molloys, and Malones…’) as diversions from the need to stop speaking altogether....

These four stories or ‘nouvelles’ date from 1945, though all were published much later, in French and subsequently in English....

\"Malone\", writes Malone, \"is what I am called now.\" On his deathbed, and wiling away the time with stories, the octogenarian Malone\"s account of his condition is intermittent and contradictory, shifting with the vagaries of the passing days: without mellowness, without elegiacs; wittier, jauntier, and capable of wilder rages than Molloy....

Murphy, Samuel Beckett’s first novel, was published in 1938. Its work-shy eponymous hero, adrift in London, realises that desire can never be satisfied and withdraws from life, in search of stupor. Murphy’s lovestruck fiancee Celia tries with tragic pathos to draw him back, but her attempts are doomed to failure....

Originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett, Endgame was given its first London performance at the Royal Court Theatre in 1957. Hamm: Clov! Clov: Yes. Hamm: Nature has forgotten us. Clov: There\"s no more nature. Hamm: No more nature! You exaggerate. Clov: In the vicinity. Hamm: But we breathe, we change!...

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. Well, thought Belacqua, it\"s a quick death, God help us all. It is not. \"Dante and the Lobster\" is the first of the linked short stories in Samuel Beckett\"s first book, More Pricks Than Kicks....

Samuel Beckett is the greatest Irish novelist of the later twentieth century, and this trilogy of novels is his masterpiece -which makes it perhaps the outstanding literary work of our time....

\"They didn\"t seem to take much interest in my private parts which to tell the truth were nothing to write home about, I didn\"t take much interest in them myself.\" From the master of the absurd, these two stories of an unnamed vagrant contending with decay and death combine bleakness with the blackest of humour....

Sein fünfter Fall führt Dr. David Hunter in die Backwaters, ein unwirtliches Mündungsgebiet in Essex, wo die Grenzen zwischen Land und Wasser verschwimmen. Aber die wahren Gefahren lauern nicht in der Tiefe, sondern dort, wo......

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Jenny Holzer is an artist who works with new media, in locations ranging from baseball stadiums to public transportation systems. This book surveys all her installations, including her celebrated marble benches and electronic boards at the DIA......

Somebody! I half-sob and then, more quietly, Please. The words seem absorbed by the afternoon heat, lost amongst the trees. In their aftermath, the silence descends again. I know then that I\'m not going anywhere... Sean is on the run. We......

For Alan Schneider, directing Endgame, Samuel Beckett lays out the play\'s philosophy, then adds: \"Don\'t mention any of this to your actors!...

Mrs Rooney, old and unwieldy, is dragging herself towards the railway station on a Saturday lunchtime to meet her blind husband on his way back from the office, and guide him home. She passes the time of day with a man with a dung cart, and a man with a bicycle. A third man with a motor car offers her a lift....