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, minor rubbing to edges and along backstrip, very light corner crease to upper cover, with some faint spotting to the verso.
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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