Collected in The Complete Short Prose of Samuel Beckett include "Fizzles," "Heard in the Dark," "Ping," and "The Last Ones." The Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett was one of the most profoundly original writers of the 20th century. He expressed the anguish and isolation of the individual consciousness with a purity and minimalism that have altered the shape of world literature. A tremendously influential poet and dramatist, Beckett spoke of his prose fiction as the "important writing," the medium in which he distilled his ideas most powerfully.
