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Product Description One of his earliest post-war novellas, 'First Love' contains much of Samuel Beckett's special brand of black humour which makes the reader laugh, but without wanting to, because the truths are uncomfortable. The narrator, expelled on the death of his father from his room, takes refuge on a bench by a canal, meets a women who takes him home and the events that follow are hilariously terrible. A masterpiece of Beckettian perversity. From the Publisher This is part of a series of twelve short volumes brought out ten years after the great writer's death, containing the best of the shorter writing, ranging from early work to his final writings. All have covers with the photographs of Samuel Beckett taken by the Irish photographer John Minihan, which, catching the author in different moods, have become classics on their own. From the Back Cover Translated from the original by the author, `Premier Amour' is one of his earlier post-war novella. Following `Watt' and preceding `Molloy', `First Love' contains much of Samuel Beckett's special brand of black humour. The narrator, expelled on the death of his father from his room, takes refuge on a bench by a canal, meets a woman who takes him home and the events that follows are hilariously terrible. A comic and poignant, erotic and devastating novella.