Lessness (short story)

"Lessness" is a short story by Samuel Beckett originally written in French as "Sans" in 1969, and later translated into English by the author. It was partly inspired by John Cage and the experimental music of the 1960s.^[1] The story was included in a book of short stories under the title Friendship launched in 1990 to coincide with the fourth anniversary of the kidnapping in Beirut of the British television journalist John McCarthy.

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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"