Digital Manuscript ProjectL'Innommable / The Unnamable
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Transcribed by: Dirk Van Hulle & Shane Weller
Holding Library: University of Reading (MS 1227/7/9/1)
abbreviated in the Manuscript Chronology as FLS
"Original manuscript of untitled opening page of draft of L'Innommable. Undated. One leaf, taken neatly from a broadlined exercise book. 21 x 17 cm. This
draft begins 'Où maintenant?' and concludes 'je ne me tairai jamais. Jamais'. Written
in dark blue ball-pen. Forty-six lines of text, covering a page and a half. Light
to moderate corrections, the majority being complete deletions with a single instance
of substitution. Beckett does not observe the lines of the paper; the text becomes
increasingly densely packed as the draft develops to accommodate two or even three
lines of script in the single line space. This section constitutes a slightly variant
draft of the opening section of the published version of L'Innommable."
Bryden, Mary, Julian Garforth and Peter Mills (1998), Beckett at Reading: Catalogue of the Beckett Manuscript Collection at the University
of Reading (Reading: Whiteknights Press and the Beckett International Foundation), p. 183
L'Innommable / The Unnamable © 2013 Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscript Project.
Editors: Dirk Van Hulle, Shane Weller and Vincent Neyt