The Final Sentence Readers of Beckett�s Trilogy…
The Final Sentence
Readers of Beckett�s Trilogy (Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnameable) tend to say that the first part is the most readable, the second comes second, while the last is invariably referred to as “The Unreadable”. My own experience was, as usual, the complete opposite. I read the first two novels in the usual way, but the final 145 pages went by like a fevered dream.
So, in order to help those with an intolerance for unpunctuated text, Colin Greenlaw has transcribed the very very long final sentence of The Unnameable yet including his own guesses at punctuation. The first bit goes:
�Enormous prison, like a hundred thousand cathedrals. Never anything else any more, from this time forth. And in it, somewhere, perhaps - riveted, tiny - the prisoner. How can he be found?�
Oh yes.
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