Stirrings Still is the final prose piece by 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...

. Written 1986-9 to give his American publisher, Barney Rosset, something to publish. First published in a signed limited edition, it was later republished in the posthumous edition As The Story Was Told (1990). It was to be Beckett's final piece of prose.

The piece was published in its entirety in The Guardian

The Guardian

The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...

 on the 3rd of March, 1989. This edition also included a review of the limited edition by Frank Kermode

Frank Kermode

Sir John Frank Kermode was a highly regarded British literary critic best known for his seminal critical work The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction, published in 1967 ....

, and a piece on the history of the works publication by John Calder

John Calder

John Mackenzie Calder is a Canadian and Scottish publisher who founded Calder Publishing in 1949.-Biography:John Calder was a friend of Samuel Beckett, becoming the main publisher of his prose-texts in Britain after the success of Waiting for Godot on the London stage in 1955-56...

In 2004, members of Binghamton University

Binghamton University

Binghamton University, also formally called State University of New York at Binghamton, , is a public research university in the State of New York. The University is one of the four university centers in the State University of New York system...

's English Department founded a scholarly journal called Stirrings Still: The International Journal of Existential Literature

Stirrings Still: The International Journal of Existential Literature

Stirrings Still: The International Journal of Existential Literature is an academic journal founded in 2004 by members of Binghamton University's English Department. The journal was published biannually, in the winter and the summer, from 2004 - 2006 inclusive, and annually from 2007...

, which was named after Beckett's piece.