BECKETT, Samuel Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable: A Trilogy. Paris: The Olympia Press.1959.
Small format 8vo., original green card covers, ruled and lettered in black and white; pp. [v], 4-579, [i]; title page with border in green; a very good copy, lightly rubbed and creased along backstrip and edges; lower cover with light diagonal crease; paperstock evenly toned,
as is common; a couple of pencil markings to prelims.
First edition thus, no. 71 in the Traveller’s Companion Series, printed October 1959 by Impr. du Lion, Paris and sold for 1.800 francs. Translated from the French by Patrick Bowles, in collaboration with the author.
One of Beckett’s best-known works, and an exploration of man’s search for meaning in Beckett’s familiar bleak, stream-of-consciousness style.
“I can’t go on, I’ll go on.”
Kearney (p. 88)
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