- Neither (short story)
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"neither" is a very short story by Samuel Beckett written in 1976 and originally published in the Journal of Beckett Studies No. 4 (Spring 1979). The title is uncapitalized, and the story is composed of only eighty-seven words, divided into ten lines, and has no punctuation except for three commas. Though originally published with line breaks suggestive of a poem, Beckett refused to include the piece in his Collected Poems because he considered it a story. As a result the work was omitted from the 1984 collection The Collected Shorter Prose 1945-1980 but later restored in The Complete Short Prose 1929-1989.
The prose of Samuel Beckett Novels: Short stories: “Assumption” • “Sedendo et Quiescendo” • “Text” • “A Case in a Thousand” • “First Love” • “The Expelled” • “The Calmative” • “The End” • “Texts for Nothing” • “From an Abandoned Work” • “The Image” • “All Strange Away” • “Imagination Dead Imagine” • “Enough” • “Ping” • “Lessness” • “The Lost Ones” • “Fizzles” • “Heard in the Dark 1” • “Heard in the Dark 2” • “One Evening” • “As the story was told” • “The Cliff” • “neither” • “Stirrings Still” • “Company” • “Ill Seen Ill Said” • “Worstward Ho”
Short story collections: More Pricks Than Kicks • Stories and Texts for Nothing • The Complete Short Prose 1929-1989
Non-fiction: Three Dialogues (with Georges Duthuit and Jacques Putnam) • Disjecta • Proust • "The Capital of the Ruins"
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- Short stories by Samuel Beckett
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