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Article: Stories for Nothing: Samuel Beckett's Narrative Poetics.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- April 1, 2004
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Stories for Nothing: Samuel Beckett's Narrative Poetics. By PAUL B. KELLEY. Foreword by H. (Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures, 111) New York, Bern, and Frankfurt a.M: Peter Lang. 2002. xv+198 pp. 37 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8204-5791-4.
Paul B. Kelley has derived his title from the 1967 Grove Press compilation published in England as No's Knife: Collected Shorter Prose 1947-1966. As unpublished correspondence reveals, Beckett's working title for what was to become Stories and Texts for Nothing in the USA was Stories Stories, the collection initially comprising the post-war nouvelles (his first prose fiction to be composed originally in ...