Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
L'Innommable / The Unnamable
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Synoptic Sentence View: Sentence 268

Versions

L'Innommable Segment 268, version 1 (MS-HRC-SB-3-10, f. 05v)

Ils te le tenaient de ses représentants à Baile atha Cliath (je ne garantis pas l'orthographe), endroit où j'aurais vu qui, à les en croire, m'aurait donné le jour.

L'Innommable Segment 268, version 2 (Minuit 1953, p. 21)

Ils le tenaient de ses représentants à Bally je ne sais plus quoi, endroit qui, à les en croire, m'aurait infligé le jour.

The Unnamable Segment 268, version 3 (MS-HRC-SB-5-9-1, f. 09r)

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.

They had it on the auth reliable authority of his agents at Bally I forget what, this being the place, according to them, where the inestimable gift of life had been rammed down my gullet.

The Unnamable Segment 268, version 4 (MS-HRC-SB-5-10, f. 08r)

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.

They had it on the reliable authority of his representatives agents at Bally I forget what, this being the place, according to them, where the inestimable gift of life had been forced upon me[] been rammed down my gullet.

The Unnamable Segment 268, version 5 (MS-WU-MSS008-3-71, f. 09r)

They had it on the reliable authority of his agents at Bally I forget what, this being the place, according to them, where the inestimable gift of life had been rammed down my gullet.

The Unnamable Segment 268, version 6 (Grove Press 1958, p. 13)

They had it on the reliable authority of his agents at Bally I forget what, this being the place, according to them, where the inestimable gift of life had been rammed down my gullet.

L'Innommable Segment 268, version 7 (Minuit 1971, p. 18)

Ils le tenaient de ses représentants à Bally je ne sais plus quoi, endroit qui, à les en croire, m'aurait infligé le jour.