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Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet. He wrote both in English and French. His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour.Beckett is widely regarded as among the most...

 used the word "fizzles" to describe eight short prose pieces written between 1973-1975.

Most fizzles are unnamed, and identified by their numbers or first few words:
  • Fizzle 1 [He is barehead]
  • Fizzle 2 [Horn came always]
  • Fizzle 3 Afar a Bird
  • Fizzle 4 [I gave up before birth]
  • Fizzle 5 [Closed place]
  • Fizzle 6 [Old earth]
  • Fizzle 7 Still
  • Fizzle 8 For to end yet again


Excluding Still, Beckett wrote all the fizzles in French, and later translated them into English. All the Fizzles are included in the collection The Complete Short Prose 1929-1989
The Complete Short Prose 1929-1989 (Beckett)
The Complete Short Prose 1929-1989 is a collection which includes all of Samuel Beckett's works written in prose, with the exception of his novels, novellas, and More Pricks Than Kicks which is considered "as much a novel as a collection of stories". The book was edited by S. E. Gontarski and...

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