Description
| Product ID: | 9780571244737 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still |
| Authors: | Author: Samuel Beckett |
| Page Count: | 176 |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Features four last prose fictions by Samuel Beckett that were originally published individually, and their composition spanned the final decade of his life. This edition also includes several short prose texts such as: "Heard in the Dark" I & II, "One Evening", "The Way", and, "Ceiling". 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). |
| Imprint Name: | Faber & Faber |
| Publisher Name: | Faber & Faber |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2009-05-21 |
