neither (short story)

"neither" is a very short story by Samuel Beckett written in 1976 and originally published in the Journal of Beckett Studies No. 4 (Spring 1979). The title is uncapitalized, and the story is composed of only eighty-seven words, divided into ten lines, and has no punctuation except for three commas.

Though originally published with line breaks suggestive of a poem, Beckett refused to include the piece in his Collected Poems because he considered it a story. As a result the work was omitted from the 1984 collection The Collected Shorter Prose 1945-1980 but later restored in The Complete Short Prose 1929-1989.

Samuel Beckett

Plays

Theatre	Human Wishes Eleutheria Waiting for Godot Act Without Words I Act Without Words II Endgame Krapp's Last Tape Rough for Theatre I Rough for Theatre II Happy Days Play Come and Go Breath Not I That Time Footfalls Neither A Piece of Monologue Rockaby Ohio Impromptu Catastrophe What Where

Radio	All That Fall From an Abandoned Work Embers The Old Tune Rough for Radio I Rough for Radio II Words and Music Cascando

Television	Eh Joe Beginning To End Ghost Trio ... but the clouds ... Quad I + II Nacht und Träume Beckett Directs Beckett

Screen	Film

Novels

Short stories

"Assumption"
"Sedendo et Quiescendo"
"Text"
"Echo's Bones"
"A Case in a Thousand"
"First Love"
"From an Abandoned Work"
"The Image"
"All Strange Away"
"Imagination Dead Imagine"
"Enough"
"Ping"
"Lessness"
"The Lost Ones"
"Fizzles"
"Heard in the Dark 1"
"Heard in the Dark 2"
"One Evening"
"As the story was told"
"The Cliff"
"neither"
"Stirrings Still"
Company
Ill Seen Ill Said
"Worstward Ho"

Short story collections

Non-fiction

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