Company: WITH Ill Seen Ill Said AND Worstward Ho AND Stirrings Still Samuel Beckett,
Publisher: Faber and Faber
ISBN: 0571244734
Edition: Paperback; 2009-05-21
Summary:
These four last prose fictions by Samuel Beckett were originally
published individually, and their composition spanned the final
decade of his life. In "Company" a solitary hearer lying in blackness
calls up images from the far-off past. "Ill Seen Ill Said" meditates
upon an old woman living out her last days alone in an isolated
snow-bound cottage, watched over by twelve mysterious sentinels. In
"Worstward Ho", a breathless speaker unravels the sense of things,
acting out the unending injunction to 'Try again. Fail again. Fail
better.' And "Stirrings Still", published in the "Guardian" a few
months before Beckett's death in 1989, is the last prose work and
testament of 'this great soothsayer of the age, and of the aged'
(Christopher Ricks). The present edition includes several short prose
texts ("Heard in the Dark" I & II, "One Evening", "The Way", and,
"Ceiling") which represent work in progress or works ancillary to the
composition of these late masterpieces.
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