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The Unnamable
- Author
- Samuel Beckett
- Narrator
- Sean Barrett
- Publisher
- Naxos AudioBooks
- Publish Date
- 1 May 2005
- Run Time
- 5 hours 45 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Critics Review
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Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award It wasn’t until Samuel Beckett won worldwide acclaim and a Nobel Prize as a great existential playwright that his novels Malone, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable were published. The three are of considerable importance, given their author’s lofty position in modern world literature. They’re brilliant achievements, albeit difficult reading, especially this, the concluding volume in the trilogy. Who is the first-person narrator? Where is he? Is he alive, dead, in a coma? He doesn’t know, how can we? Sean Barrett doesn’t always know what he’s reading (who could?), but to his considerable credit, he understands and delivers most of it with zest and an authentic flavor reflecting the text’s Irish melodiousness, pessimism, and black humor. Sour, old Beckett would not approve of his approach, as Barrett makes the text too interesting.
Y.R., AudioFile
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Details
- Author
- Samuel Beckett
- Narrator
- Sean Barrett
- Duration
- 5 hours 45 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 May 2005
- ISBN
- 9789629545840
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Naxos AudioBooks
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
The Unnamable is the third novel in Becket’s trilogy, three remarkable prose works in which men of increasingly debilitating physical circumstances act, ponder, consider and rage against impermanence and the human condition. The Unnamable is without doubt the most uncompromising text and it is read here in startling fashion by Sean Barrett.
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