{"product_id":"21668-beckett-samuel-texts-for-nothing-signed","title":"Beckett, Samuel. (1906–1989) Texts for Nothing  - SIGNED","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eSoftcover edition of Texts for Nothing (Signature 21), first thus, signed and inscribed on the title page in black ink by the\u003c\/span\u003e important Irish novelist and playwright, to the actor Alan Wade \"with every good wish \/ Sam Beckett \/ Paris March 1976.\" 8vo. 64 pp. Creases to lower corners, light toning around the edges, overall fine. \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003eOriginally published in 1955 in \u003ci style=\"\"\u003eStories and Texts for Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e, which gathered three of Beckett's short stories with these thirteen short prose pieces he named \"Texts for Nothing\"(1950–1952). None of the thirteen \"Texts for Nothing\" were given titles; they present a variety of voices thrust into the unknown. According to S. E. Gontarski: \"What one is left with after the \u003ci style=\"\"\u003eTexts for Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e is 'nothing,' incorporeal consciousness perhaps, into which Beckett plunged afresh in English in the early 1950s to produce a tale rich in imagery but short on external coherence.\" Thus these texts, when compared to the three earlier stories, as well as First Love, may be interpreted as representing a movement in Beckett's writing from modernism to postmodernism. Unlike the earlier stories, these pieces are no longer completed stories but shards - \"aperçus of a continuous unfolding narrative, glimpses at a never to be complete being (Narrative).\" This idea is voiced in text 4, where the narrator admits stories are not required any more: \"\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eThere's my life, why not, it is one, if you like, if you must, I don't say no, this evening. There has to be one, it seems, once there is speech, no need of a story, a story is not compulsory, just a life, that's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003eAlan Wade, actor and director, performed the role of Beckett in the 2022 Washington Stage Guild's production of Gino Dilorio's play \"Sam and Dede.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093788971167,"sku":"21668","price":575.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Beckett_Texts_for_Nothing_Signed_21668a.png?v=1722190365","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/21668-beckett-samuel-texts-for-nothing-signed","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}