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Unnamable, The (in French as L'Innommable, 1953; in English, 1958), a novel by Samuel Beckett, last in a trilogy that includes Molloy and Malone Dies. Compelled to speak in spite of a longing for extinction and silence, the disembodied narrator's voice bemoans time wasted in telling of Murphy, Molloy, and Malone, when he could have been speaking of himself. Several possible identities are rehearsed; voices express an intense loathing of language as well as the obsessive need to go on talking.

 
 
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The Unnamable is a 1953 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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