Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
L'Innommable / The Unnamable
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Synoptic Sentence View: Sentence 937

Versions

L'Innommable Segment 937, version 1 (MS-HRC-SB-3-10, f. 40v)

Ils m'ont gonflé gonflé de leurs voix, tel un ballon, j'ai beau me dégonfler vider, c'est encore eux que j'entends.

L'Innommable Segment 937, version 2 (Minuit 1953, p. 78)

Ils m'ont gonflé de leurs voix, tel un ballon, j'ai beau me vider, c'est encore eux que j'entends.

The Unnamable Segment 937, version 3 (MS-HRC-SB-5-9-1, f. 42r)

They've blown me up with their voices, like a balloon, and deflating it's them and in my very deflation it's them I hear.

The Unnamable Segment 937, version 4 (MS-HRC-SB-5-10, f. 42r)

They've blown me up with their voices, like a balloon, and even as x I deflate collapse it's them I hear.

The Unnamable Segment 937, version 5 (MS-WU-MSS008-3-71, f. 42r)

They've blown me up with their voices, like a balloon, and even as I collapse it's them I hear.

The Unnamable Segment 937, version 6 (Grove Press 1958, p. 52)

They've blown me up with their voices, like a balloon, and even as I collapse it's them I hear.

L'Innommable Segment 937, version 7 (Minuit 1971, p. 64)

Ils m'ont gonflé de leurs voix, tel un ballon, j'ai beau me vider, c'est encore eux que j'entends.