'He is the most courageous, remorseless writer going. He brings forth a body of beauty...' - Harold Pinter
This new collection brings together First Love, The Calamative, The End and The Expelled; these four novellas are among the first major works of Beckett's decision to use French as his language of literary composition. Rich in verbal and situational humour, they offer a fascinating insight into many of the issues which preoccupied Beckett all his working life. As the first novella reveals, nobody writes with quite such cruel and unnervingly clever wit as Beckett...
'These four stories... are superb works of art, and it is good to have them collected in this handsome edition, immaculately edited and annotated by Gerry Dukes' - John Banville, Irish Times
