The Unnamable (novel)

The Nameless (or " The Nameless ." - The French and English articles eventually leaves to both ) is a 1953 published novel by Samuel Beckett and appeared as the third part of the trilogy that began with Molloy and dies with Malone continued. He was first published in French as L' Innommable and then in English as The Unnamable in the Olympia Press, Paris.

The novel consists entirely of a disjointed and sometimes hysterical monologue and is told from the perspective of a nameless and immovable ego. Anonymity is programmatically to understand for an equally subjectless speaking I like a not to be determined, environment in which this self is situated. The I questioned his environment and himself in endless cascades of words, until there is nothing left at the end to click on the text and the language itself, which is also being questioned. Nevertheless, there is a forced speech, which he can not overcome for the speaker. In the midst of this written down speech barrage named entities ( Worm, Mahood, etc.) are introduced by the I repeatedly, which are then rather quickly again commented discarded. In addition, I also describes a few theatrical images - for example, a crippled figure in a jar, which is supplied from time to time by a hostess. Variations of this image can also be found in the late Beckett plays again - for example, in the final.

The speech compulsion associated with the hope to open in the silence that is achieved in the following manner tangent ever shorter publications. The nameless is thus a poetic document for the dilemma of the modern poet who no longer trust the language and yet is unable to break away from her. The ideal of a " new language " is discussed, but can hardly be realized. There remain relics of traditional conventionally certain linguistic set pieces indelible.

With the Nameless succeeds Beckett finally, to break away from traditional narrative patterns and a kind of inner - James Joyce trained - monologue to develop, the dizzying and circling around itself no longer allows mimetic conclusions.