Now compiled in one volume, these three novels, which are among the most beautiful and disquieting of Samuel Beckett's later prose works, work together with the powerful resonance of his famous Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable. In Company, a voice comes to "one on his back in the dark" and speaks to him. Ill Seen Ill Said focuses attention on an old woman in a cabin who is part of the objects, landscape, rhythms, and movements of an incomprehensible universe. And in Worstward Ho, Beckett explores a tentative, uncertain existence in a world devoid of rational meaning and purpose. Here is language pared down to its most expressive, confirming Beckett's position as one of the great writers of our time.

萨缪尔·贝克特（Samuel Beckett）,1906年4月13日生于都柏林南郊的福克斯罗克,1989年12月22日逝于巴黎。侨居法国的爱尔兰小说家、戏剧家、诗人,同时用英文和法文进行创作,1969年因其作品“以新的小说和戏剧的形式从现代人的窘困中获得崇高”而荣膺诺贝尔文学奖。

龚蓉,中国社会科学院外国文学研究所助理研究员。著有《〈克雷蒙复仇记〉：政治化的殉道者阴影下的公共人》《〈少女的悲剧〉：契约论与君权神授论的对话》等论文。

余中先,中国社会科学院外国文学研究所研究员,《世界文学》前主编,中国社会科学院研究生院博士生导师。现受聘为厦门大学讲座教授。北京大学毕业,曾留学法国,在巴黎第四大学获得文学博士学位。长年从事法语文学作品的翻译、评论、研究工作,翻译介绍了奈瓦尔、克洛代尔、阿波利奈尔、贝克特、西蒙、罗伯－格里耶、萨冈、昆德拉、勒克莱齐奥、图森、艾什诺兹等人的小说、戏剧、诗歌作品。被法国政府授予文学艺术骑士勋章。