Stirrings Still is the final prose piece by Samuel Beckett,[1] written in English in 1986–89 to give his American publisher, Barney Rosset, something to publish. First published in a signed limited edition, it was later republished in the posthumous edition As The Story Was Told (1990).

The piece was published in its entirety in The Guardian on 3 March 1989. This edition also included a review of the limited edition by Frank Kermode, and a piece on the history of the work's publication by John Calder.

In 2004, members of Binghamton University's English Department founded a scholarly journal called Stirrings Still: The International Journal of Existential Literature, which was named after Beckett's piece.

References

  1. ↑ Peter Boxall. Still Stirrings : Beckett's Prose from Texts for Nothing to Stirrings Still. In The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett (Dirk Van Hulle, ed.), pp. 33-47 (Cambridge University Press; 2015) ISBN 978-1-107-42781-5

Bibliography

  • Beckett, Samuel. Stirrings Still London: John Calder, 1999.
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