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).[ citation needed]
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.[ citation needed]
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.[ citation needed]
References
- ^ 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.