First Love (short story)

"First Love" is a short story by Samuel Beckett, written in 1946 and first published in 1973.

The narrator tells how he is befriended by a strange woman on a park bench where he slept after becoming homeless.

A stage version was performed by Ralph Fiennes at the Sydney Festival in 2007.

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v • d • e The Prose of Samuel Beckett

Novels:	Dream of Fair to Middling Women, Mercier and Camier, Murphy, Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, Watt, 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