The Unnamable (novel)
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The Unnamable is a novel by Samuel Beckett. It is the third and final entry in Beckett's "Trilogy" of novels, which also includes Molloy and Malone Dies. It was originally published in French as L'Innomable.
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" and "Worm") actually exist or whether they are facets of the narrator himself is debatable.
The novel builds in its despairing tone until the ending, which is mainly comprised 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.
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| The Prose of Samuel Beckett |
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| Novels : Dream of Fair to Middling Women, How It Is, Malone Dies, Mercier and Camier, Molloy, Murphy, The Unnamable, Watt Novellas : Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho Stories : First Love , Fizzles, More Pricks Than Kicks, Stirrings Still, Stories and Texts for Nothing Non-Fiction : Three Dialogues (with Georges Duthuit and Jacques Putnam), Disjecta, Proust |
