Assumption (short Story)

"Assumption" is Samuel Beckett's first published story, appearing in Transition magazine in June 1929, in the same issue as James Joyce's Work in Progress.

The prose of Samuel Beckett
Novels:
  • Dream of Fair to Middling Women
  • Murphy
  • Watt
  • Mercier and Camier
  • Molloy
  • Malone Dies
  • The Unnamable
  • How It Is
Short stories:
  • “Assumption”
  • “Sedendo et Quiescendo”
  • “Text”
  • “A Case in a Thousand”
  • “First Love”
  • “The Expelled”
  • “The Calmative”
  • “The End”
  • “Texts for Nothing”
  • “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:
  • More Pricks Than Kicks
  • Stories and Texts for Nothing
  • The Complete Short Prose 1929-1989
Non-fiction:
  • Three Dialogues (with Georges Duthuit and Jacques Putnam)
  • Disjecta
  • Proust
  • "The Capital of the Ruins"

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