Nohow On by Samuel Beckett
A late-career trio of terse, elliptical prose pieces presents a solitary mind addressing absence, recalling fragmented scenes and persons, and relentlessly reducing language toward its minimal essence. In one piece a disembodied voice narrates memories and bodily sensations to an unnamed listener; another offers brittle, precise glimpses of an elderly figure and the mutability of perception; the final fragment strips syntax to imperatives and staccato commands that push at persistence amid failure. Throughout, repetition, negation, and pared-down imagery probe human loneliness, the frailty of memory and body, and the stubborn, often wry, will to keep speaking as things fall away.
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- Published
- 1989
- Nationality
- Irish
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- English
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