Leslie Hill is Emeritus Professor of French Studies at the University of Warwick. His many publications include Maurice Blanchot and Fragmentary Writing (Continuum, 2012), Radical Indecision: Barthes, Blanchot, Derrida, and the Future of Criticism (Notre Dame UP, 2010) The Cambridge Companion to Jacques Derrida (CUP, 2007), Bataille, Klossowski, Blanchot: Writing at the Limit (OUP, 2001), Blanchot: Extreme Contemporary (Routledge, 1997) and Beckett's Fiction (CUP, 1990).

Preface; 1. Murphy's law; 2. The loss of species; 3. The trilogy translated; 4. Duality, repetition, aporia; 5. Fables of genealogy; 6. Naming the body; 7. Experiment and failure; 8. Writing remainders: Indifferent words.

This is a new account of the prose fiction of Samuel Beckett from Murphy (1938) to Worstward Ho (1983).