First Love and Other Shorts

The volume brings together six previously uncollected works by the Nobel Prize-winning writer, among them a major work of fiction, First Love, which he began in French in 1946 but didn’t finish translating into English until 1972. Also included is the stage work, Not I, which premiered at Lincoln Center in New York in 1972.

The story of First Love, a man’s musings about his youth occasioned by his visit to his father’s grave, is designated by its title. Christopher Ricks, in New Statesman, ...