Lessness (short story)
"Lessness" is a short story by Samuel Beckett originally written in French as "Sans" in 1969, and later translated into English by the author. It was partly inspired by John Cage and the experimental music of the 1960s.[1] The story was included in a book of short stories under the title Friendship launched in 1990 to coincide with the fourth anniversary of the kidnapping in Beirut of the British television journalist John McCarthy.
"Lessness" was written when Beckett wrote sixty sentences on different pieces of paper, put them in a box, and drew them out. He then repeated the process.[2]
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- Dream of Fair to Middling Women
- Murphy
- Watt
- Mercier and Camier
- Molloy
- Malone Dies
- The Unnamable
- How It Is
- "Assumption"
- "Echo's Bones"
- "First Love"
- "From an Abandoned Work"
- "All Strange Away"
- "Imagination Dead Imagine"
- "Ping"
- "Lessness"
- "The Lost Ones"
- Fizzles
- "neither"
- "Stirrings Still"
- Company
- Ill Seen Ill Said
- "Worstward Ho"
- "Three Dialogues"
- Disjecta
- Proust
- "The Capital of the Ruins"
- Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil (wife)
- Frances Beckett (aunt)
- James Beckett (uncle)
- Journal of Beckett Studies
- LÉ Samuel Beckett (P61)
- Samuel Beckett Bridge
- Notfilm (2015 documentary)
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