Stories and Texts for Nothing

Stories and texts about Nothing (French Nouvelles et pour rien text ) is an anthology of short stories of Samuel Beckett. This includes 13 short stories that are available usually only in fragments and usually have a length of only three or four pages. They originate from the years 1947 to 1952, one of the most productive phases Beckett, in this Waiting for Godot dies, Molloy, Malone and published The Nameless.

The unloved by Beckett himself collection was mainly published therefore, to bridge the waiting time after the Nameless, according to the Beckett - researcher Paul Sheehan, these are the most overlooked work of Beckett. A wide reception but learned the work by a quote that appears at the beginning of the Third text: . What does it matter who's speaking, someone said, what matter who's speaking, which at a central point in his canonical text of Michel Foucault What is an Author? was taken up. The quote itself was used in the further reception history as a slogan or even in titles fragment of numerous articles that dealt with the role of the author.