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" The unnamable. "
Translated from the French by the author.
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BL
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976202
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b730572
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| Uniform Title
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Innommable.English
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| Main Entry
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Beckett, Samuel,1906-1989.
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| Title & Author
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The unnamable.\ Translated from the French by the author.
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| Publication Statement
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New York,: Grove Press, [1958]
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| Series Statement
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Collected works of Samuel Beckett.
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179 pages; 21 cm
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039417030X
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: 9780394170305
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" ... published in five editions: An Evergreen book (E-117); A cloth bound edition; A specially bound limited edition of 100 numbered copies; A specially bound and signed edition of 26 copies, numbered A through Z; A specially bound and signed edition of 4 copies, hor commerce, numbered 1 through 4"--Preliminary leaf
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"The obsessive narrator, who opens the novel asking, "Where now? Who now? When now?" is a disembodied person, living in a large jar in a restaurant window in Paris. Essentially "unnameable," the narrator is referred to as Mahood, Worm, and Basil, in a series of tales. The final sentence in the novel is a long dramatic monologue. The narrator concludes with the desire to continue living despite an inescapable sense of anguish and entropy: "I can't go on, I'll go on." " (Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, accessed online 11/14/2019)
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French fiction-- 20th century, Translations into English.
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Irish literature-- France-- 20th century.
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French fiction.
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Irish literature.
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Paris (France), Fiction.
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France, Paris.
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France.
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| Dewey Classification
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848.91
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| LC Classification
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PQ2603.E378I63
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