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Title | : | The Unnamable (The Trilogy #3) |
Author | : | Samuel Beckett |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 186 pages |
Published | : | March 1st 1978 by Grove/Atlantic (first published 1953) |
Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Cultural. Ireland. European Literature. Irish Literature |
Samuel Beckett
Paperback | Pages: 186 pages Rating: 4.01 | 1980 Users | 209 Reviews
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The Unnamable consists entirely of a disjointed monologue from the perspective of an unnamed (presumably unnamable) and immobile protagonist. There is no concrete plot or setting - and whether the other characters ("Mahood" (formerly "Basil") and "Worm") actually exist or whether they are facets of the narrator himself is debatable. The protagonist also claims authorship of the main characters in the two previous novels of the Trilogy and Beckett's earlier novels Murphy, Mercier and Camier, and Watt. The novel is a mix of recollections and existential musings on the part of its narrator, many of which pertain specifically to the possibility that the narrator is constructed by the language he speaks. Other 'characters' (a stretch to call them distinctly different than the narrator) serve as the passive recipient of the dialogue and in many places (as the narrator suggests) the dialogue's genesis. The novel builds in its despairing tone until the ending, which consists mainly of very long run-on sentences. It closes with the phrase "I can't go on, I'll go on," which was later used as the title of an anthology of Beckett works.The Unnamable is a 1953 novel by Samuel Beckett. It is the third and final entry in Beckett's "Trilogy" of novels, which begins with Molloy followed by Malone Dies. It was originally published in French as L'Innommable and later translated by the author into English. Grove Press published the English edition in 1958.
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Original Title: | L'Innomable |
ISBN: | 039417030X (ISBN13: 9780394170305) |
Edition Language: | English |
Series: | The Trilogy #3 |
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Ratings: 4.01 From 1980 Users | 209 ReviewsJudgment Regarding Books The Unnamable (The Trilogy #3)
I learned a lot about my... self? while reading this extended narration of narration in-itself it suspends me from time and any comfortable footings in reality the same way Webern's music and Trakl's poetry do. Euphoric and utterly terrifying. I lack the philosophical wisdom to determine whether or not this "should" be the case, but the more I read Adorno & Nietzsche the more I'm convinced that becoming entails coming to terms with the limits (negativity) of knowledge, unless that's theAfter the second read it isn't so crazy, really! It's a poem, more than prose, a prayer even, and is best in small doses, in order to get the beauty of the language. To me it could be one of the lost books of the Bible, something the Pharasies and/or the popes thought too crazy to include, maybe the Lost Book of Job or Jeremiah, maybe Cain. The character, the Unnamable, armless and legless voice that cries out throughout the one hundred odd pages could easily be the voice of all humanity, all
L'Innommable = The Unnamable (The Trilogy #3), Samuel BeckettThe Unnamable is a 1953 novel by Samuel Beckett. It is the third and final entry in Beckett's "Trilogy" of novels, which begins with Molloy followed by Malone Dies. It was originally published in French as L'Innommable and later adapted by the author into English. Grove Press published the English edition in 1958.تاریخ نخستین خوانش: چهاردهم ماه سپتامبر سال 2014 میلادیعنوان: نام ناپذیر اثر: ساموئل بکت مترجم: سهیل سمی مشخصات نشر: تهران
[Re-reading this book has taken me more than a month. I did give myself the time to savor it...]Here all is killing and eating. This evening there is tripe.I haven't laughed many times in my life reading a book, and found it weird when it happened to me half-way through re-reading this one (didn't happen the first time years ago), and thought if other people have laughed at the same part of the book as me or any other part, for that matter pondered about my mental health too, right after that.
Suppose I put you in a washing machine and set the spinner on for hours- the dizziness you will feel is what I felt while reading the book. This dizziness will makes one question, vaguely that is, the nature of reality, identity and social contact. The unnamed and highly unreliable narrator, who also claims the authorship of previous two works of trilogy and of Murphy too,is thinking about something, or nothing, or something that turned out to be nothing, or something that was always nothing;
This is the oddest and hardest book I've ever read. Yes, more difficult than Pynchon, DFW, and the rest of the gang. It was definitely a slog to get through in parts; it's a short book, but it took me around two weeks to read, which is a very long time for me. So it was weird, hard, time-consuming, as well as indecipherable at times but I'm still glad I finished it (so glad it's over). After a while, you stop trying to make sense of it and just go with the current of this river of words, one
I am going to use this book as a punishment for my students when I'm a teacher.
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