Nohow On: Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho: Three Novels
by Samuel Beckett
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Read in March, 2008
I am stuck on Beckett. I can't get enough of the man. When I read this, though, it made me stop and think really seriously of Beckett himself and what actually he believed to be true about life (and the rest of us in his estimation). Nohow On is the logical conclusion of Beckett's worldview. Most shockingly, it is completely absent of humour. The old Beckett is here making a horrifying statement about the human condition. Language doesn't even work the same anymore. The stripped and bared words ...more
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Read in June, 2004
In which Beckett pares down story, character, and language as much as they can take, and then keeps going. Challenging in the best sense. No one before or since has written anything like "Worstward Ho," and I keep returning to it, trying to understand how it works. So spare, and yet completely devastating.
"Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
"Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
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Read in July, 2004
One of the most amazing things I've ever read. Reading it actually changed the rhythm of my breath.
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The spare, mesmeric beauty of Samuel Beckett's late prose is simply shattering.
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"Hold the old holding hand. Hold and be held. Plod on and never recede. Slowly with never a pause plod on and never recede."
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