Stories and Texts for Nothing

Stories and Texts for Nothing is a collection of stories by Samuel Beckett. It gathers three of Beckett's short stories ("The Expelled," "The Calmative," and "The End", all written in 1946) and the thirteen short prose pieces he named "Texts for Nothing." All three stories deal with the displacement or expulsion of old men who are forced to leave their modest lives in search of a new niche where they might fit. The thirteen "Texts for Nothing" present a variety of voices, also driven away towards the unknown. All of these works are collected in the Grove Press edition of Beckett's complete short prose.