The collection of French-language prose by Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) includes works created over more than thirty years. Comets of paradox and bitter humor flash across the cloudy firmament of Beckett’s prose. Back in the thirties, a writer who admired Beethoven wondered whether it was possible to break through the verbal fabric like “the sound fabric of the Seventh Symphony, torn by huge pauses,” so that “on page after page we saw only strings of sounds stretched in dizzy heights and connecting the abysses of silence " By mid-century, Beckett had succeeded. Perhaps the reader, contrary to the title of the collection, will not find a story about love in it, but he will certainly discover something new in the properties of silence. Published in Russian for the first time.