The History of Production of the Works of Harold Pinter
Lessness (1970)
Samuel Beckett
Prose (fiction)
English
Written at the end of the 1960s, this short text is one of the most experimental of Samuel Beckett’s pieces of fiction. It was originally written in French, entitled Sans (“without”), and translated by Beckett himself as Lessness (New Statesman, 1 May 1970). Partly inspired by experimental music by John Cage and other 1960s compositions, Beckett created a rigid framework within which he allows chance to be the main structuring principle of his text.
The ingredients are two times sixty sentences, one character, grey light, and a setting of ruins, which are referred to as “true refuge”.
Date of Composition: 1970
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