The Unnamable

The UnnamableThe third of Beckett's post war novels, after Molloy and Malone Dies, The Unnamable was first published in French, and in Beckett's English in 1958. 'Like a great horned owl in an aviary', the unnamable narrator so named because he knows not who he may be sits nowhere and speaks of previous selves ('all these Murphys, Molloys, and Malones do not fool me') as so many diversions from the need to stop speaking altogether. As with the earlier novels, the

uncovering long-buried memories of a profoundly impoverished childhood

Saleem Sinai is a special child

which was acclaimed by Garry Wills as “the first translation since Dryden’s that can be read as a great English poem in itself

Excerpt from a 1990 program about the music in Visconti’s films

and the work of artistic contemporaries such as Andy Warhol and Cy Twombly

Video interview with film scholar Jean Narboni

resistance and epic adventure

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the master of cruelty and humiliation who rode his chariot across the sea

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The Arab side—where the archives are still closed—is illuminated with the help of intelligence and diplomatic materials