Stories and texts about nothing

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Stories and Texts About Nothing (French: Nouvelles et Textes pour rien ) is an anthology of short stories by Samuel Beckett . This comprises 13 short stories, which are mostly only available in fragments and usually only three or four pages long. They come from the years 1947 to 1952, one of Beckett's most productive phases, in which Beckett's Waiting for Godot , Molloy , Malone dies and The Nameless One published.

The collection, which Beckett himself disliked, was published primarily to bridge the waiting time for the nameless one. According to Beckett researcher Paul Sheehan , this is Beckett's most overlooked work. However, the work received a broad reception through a quote that appears at the beginning of the third text: What does it matter who speaks, someone has said what does it matter who speaks. , that of Michel Foucault at the center of his canonical text What is an Author? was picked up. The quote itself served as a slogan in or even a title fragment for numerous articles that dealt with the role of the author in the further history of reception .

literature

  • Florian Hartling: The digital author: authorship in the age of the internet . transcript Verlag, 2009, ISBN 383761090X , pp. 118-120