Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still av Samuel Beckett

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<p>These four last prose fictions by Samuel Beckett were originally published individually, and their composition spanned the final decade of his life<b>. </b>In <i>Company</i> a solitary hearer lying in blackness calls up images from the far-off past. <i>Ill Seen Ill Said</i> meditates upon an old woman living out her last days alone in an isolated snow-bound cottage, watched over by twelve mysterious sentinels. In <i>Worstward Ho</i>, a breathless speaker unravels the sense of things, acting out the unending injunction to ''Try again. Fail again. Fail better.'' And <i>Stirrings Still, </i>published in the<i> Guardian </i>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).<br><br> The present edition includes several short prose texts (<i>Heard in the Dark I & II</i>, <i>One Evening</i>, <i>The Way</i>, <i>Ceiling</i>) which represent work in progress or works ancillary to the