Nohow On: Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho: Three Novels - Softcover

Beckett, Samuel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802134262 ISBN 13: 9780802134264

Publisher: Grove Press, 1995

Synopsis

Now compiled in one volume, these three novels, which are among the most beautiful and disquieting of Samuel Beckett's later prose works, work together with the powerful resonance of his famous Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable. In Company, a voice comes to "one on his back in the dark" and speaks to him. Ill Seen Ill Said focuses attention on an old woman in a cabin who is part of the objects, landscape, rhythms, and movements of an incomprehensible universe. And in Worstward Ho, Beckett explores a tentative, uncertain existence in a world devoid of rational meaning and purpose. Here is language pared down to its most expressive, confirming Beckett's position as one of the great writers of our time.

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Review:

Beckett has few imitators these days, when story is all to most novelists, but he remains a writer of unquestionable stature. Nohow On: Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho: Three Novels and its companion volume Samuel Beckett: The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989 assemble virtually all of Beckett's prose work outside his sequence of major novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable.

Review:

In Beckett's fiction, every other word serves to snap the reader back to consciousness. -- The New York Times Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0802134262
• ISBN 13: 9780802134264
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 116