Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
L'Innommable / The Unnamable
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Synoptic Sentence View: Sentence 803

Versions

L'Innommable Segment 803, version 1 (MS-HRC-SB-3-10, f. 33v)

Souvent c'était l'un des enfants qui, profitant d'une pause dans le récit, pendant laquelle mes parents s'abîmaient dans leurs souvenirs, lançait en guise de conclusion la phrase consacrée, Pourtant ç'avait été un beau bébé.

L'Innommable Segment 803, version 2 (Minuit 1953, p. 65)

Souvent c'était l'un des enfants qui, profitant d'une pause dans le récit pendant laquelle mes parents s'abîmaient dans leurs souvenirs, lançait en guise de clôture la phrase consacrée, Pourtant ç'avait été un beau bébé.

The Unnamable Segment 803, version 3 (MS-HRC-SB-5-9-1, f. 34r)

Often of the children, taking an advantage of a pause in the story due to the disappearance of my parents in their memories, would launch by way of envoy the consecrated phrase, And yet he was a fine baby.

The Unnamable Segment 803, version 4 (MS-HRC-SB-5-10, f. 35r)

And often one of the children, taking advantage of a pause due to the disappearance abeyance of my parents plunged in their memories, would launch by way of envoy the consecrated phrase, And yet he was a fine baby.

The Unnamable Segment 803, version 5 (MS-WU-MSS008-3-71, f. 34r)

Often the they fell silent, engulfed in their memories. Then it was usual for one of the children to launch, by way of envoy, the consecrated phrase, And yet he was a fine baby.

The Unnamable Segment 803, version 6 (Grove Press 1958, p. 43)

Often they fell silent, engulfed in their memories. Then it was usual for one of the children to launch, by way of envoy, the consecrated phrase, And yet he was a fine baby.

L'Innommable Segment 803, version 7 (Minuit 1971, p. 54)

Souvent c'était l'un des enfants qui, profitant d'une pause dans le récit pendant laquelle mes parents s'abîmaient dans leurs souvenirs, lançait en guise de clôture la phrase consacrée, Pourtant ç'avait été un beau bébé.