Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
L'Innommable / The Unnamable
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Synoptic Sentence View: Sentence 439

Versions

L'Innommable Segment 439, version 1 (MS-HRC-SB-3-10, f. 14v)

Dieu et les hommes, [] [] le jour et la nature, les élans du cœur et le moyen de comprendre, lâchement je les ai inventés, pour retarder l'heure sans l'aide de personne, puisqu'il n'y a personne, pour retarder l'heure parler de moi.

L'Innommable Segment 439, version 2 (Minuit 1953, p. 34)

Dieu et les hommes, le jour et la nature, les élans du cœur et le moyen de comprendre, lâchement je les ai inventés, sans l'aide de personne, puisqu'il n'y a personne, pour retarder l'heure de parler de moi.

The Unnamable Segment 439, version 3 (MS-HRC-SB-5-9-1, f. 16r)

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.

God and man, nature and the light of day, the heart's outpourings and the means of understanding, all invented, basely, by me alone, with the help of nobody, since there is nobody, to delay the hou put off the hour when I must speak of me.

The Unnamable Segment 439, version 4 (MS-HRC-SB-5-10, f. 17r)

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.

God and man, nature and the light of day, the heart's outpourings and the means of understanding, all invented, basesly , by me alone, with the help of nobody, since there is nobody, so as not to to put off the hour when I [] must speak of myself me.

The Unnamable Segment 439, version 5 (MS-WU-MSS008-3-71, f. 16r)

God and man, nature and the light of day, the nheart's outpourings and the means of understanding, all invented, basely, by me alone, with the help of no one, since there is no one, to put off the hour when I must speak of me.

The Unnamable Segment 439, version 6 (Grove Press 1958, p. 22)

God and man, nature and the light of day, the heart's outpourings and the means of understanding, all invented, basely, by me alone, with the help of no one, since there is no one, to put off the hour when I must speak of me.

L'Innommable Segment 439, version 7 (Minuit 1971, p. 29)

Dieu et les hommes, le jour et la nature, les élans du cœur et le moyen de comprendre, lâchement je les ai inventés, sans l'aide de personne, puisqu'il n'y a personne, pour retarder l'heure de parler de moi.