The "fizzles" are eight short prose pieces written by Samuel Beckett: * Fizzle 1 [He is barehead] * Fizzle 2 [Horn came always] * Fizzle 3 Afar a Bird * Fizzle 4 [I gave up before birth] * Fizzle 5 [Closed place] * Fizzle 6 [Old earth] * Fizzle 7 Still * Fizzle 8 For to end yet again Some fizzles are unnamed and are identified by their numbers or first few words, which appear above in brackets. This cerebral volume that provokes more questions than it answers is considered one of the greatest artist's books of the second half of the twentieth century.