The Unnamable

Samuel Beckett · 1953 CE · Novel · English · Contemporary

A voice with no body it can vouch for sits somewhere in the dark naming figures — Mahood in his jar outside a Paris restaurant, Worm who may be nothing at all — and disowning each in turn. It cannot stop speaking and cannot reach the words that would let it stop. The last of the three French books, and the point past which Beckett said he could not go.

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