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The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett; Steven Connor; A2/SW/HK (Firm) is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Unnamable about?

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 the 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's works.The Unnamable is a 1953 novel by Samuel Beckett. It

Who reads The Unnamable?

Author

Samuel Beckett; Steven Connor; A2/SW/HK (Firm)

Publisher

Faber and Faber

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780571244645

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Romance, Fiction, Classics

Rating

4.03 / 5 (82 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14