First Love (short story)

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

The narrator tells of his discovery by a prostitute on a park bench (where he slept after becoming homeless), and the cruel, even revolting, sexual relationship that develops out of this.

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

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Book published by Calder

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" "Echo's Bones" "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 1929–89

Non-fiction:	Three Dialogues (with Georges Duthuit and Jacques Putnam) Disjecta Proust "The Capital of the Ruins"