I can’t go on
The final episode of Channel 4’s terrifying The Story of the Novel focussed on the post-War English-language literary scene. So far (the programme isn’t over yet) we’ve endured Evelyn Waugh, Kingsley Amis, Ralph Ellison, Angela Carter and JG Ballard. The usual crap about the “verve” of US culture and the comparative dullness of UK writers’ concern with class.
It does not mention the single English language work of that 55 year period that can stand alongside the non-English greats of that time: Beckett’s Trilogy. It does not mention Samuel Beckett’s Trilogy. Let me say that again: it does not mention Samuel Beckett’s Trilogy.
Does this make anyone else feel ill? I suppose I should laugh. Ha ha.
As consolation, here’s Colin Greenlaw�s “parsed and punctuated” last sentence of The Unnameable.
Other Splinters posts of interest:
- The Final Sentence Readers of Beckett�s Trilogy…
- Audio Amis, audio Beckett
- A shift away
- New Beckett Site There�s an impressive new websit…
- Ceasing to describe
