Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
L'Innommable / The Unnamable
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Synoptic Sentence View: Sentence 171

Versions

L'Innommable Segment 171, version 1 (Minuit 1953, p. 15)

Mais au fait, tourne-t-il vraiment, ou ne fait-il que passer devant moi, en ligne droite ?

The Unnamable Segment 171, version 2 (MS-HRC-SB-5-9-1, f. 05r)

The chronology of the sentence versions relating to the first 23 pages of this manuscript differs from the chronology of the rest of the text. For a more detailed analysis: click here.

But does he in fact wheel, does he not perhaps simply pass before in a straight line?

The Unnamable Segment 171, version 3 (MS-HRC-SB-5-10, f. 05r)

The chronology of the sentence versions relating to the first 24 pages of this typescript differs from the chronology of the rest of the text. For a more detailed analysis: click here.

But does he really in fact wheel, does he not perhaps simply pass before me in a straight line?

The Unnamable Segment 171, version 4 (Spectrum, p. 7)

But does he in fact wheel, does he not perhaps simply pass before me in a straight line?

The Unnamable Segment 171, version 5 (MS-WU-MSS008-3-71, f. 05r)

But does he in fact wheel, does he not perhaps simply pass before me in a straight line?

The Unnamable Segment 171, version 6 (Grove Press 1958, p. 9)

But does he in fact wheel, does he not perhaps simply pass before me in a straight line?

L'Innommable Segment 171, version 7 (Minuit 1971, p. 13)

Mais au fait, tourne-t-il vraiment, ou ne fait-il que passer devant moi, en ligne droite ?