Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
L'Innommable / The Unnamable
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Synoptic Sentence View: Sentence 1270

Versions

L'Innommable Segment 1270, version 1 (MS-HRC-SB-3-10, f. 55v)

Mais non, il faut que je me taise, que je retienne mon souffle.

L'Innommable Segment 1270, version 2 (Nouvelle Nouvelle Revue Française, p. 214)

Mais non, il faut que je me taise, que je retienne mon souffle.

L'Innommable Segment 1270, version 3 (Minuit 1953, p. 104)

Mais non, il faut que je me taise, que je retienne mon souffle.

The Unnamable Segment 1270, version 4 (MS-HRC-SB-5-9-2, f. 09r)

Too, too easy, it is I who must be silent, hold my breath.

The Unnamable Segment 1270, version 5 (MS-HRC-SB-5-10, f. 57r)

Too easy, it is I who must be silent, hold my breath.

The Unnamable Segment 1270, version 6 (MS-WU-MSS008-3-71, f. 56r)

Too easy, it is I who must be silent, hold my breath.

The Unnamable Segment 1270, version 7 (Grove Press 1958, p. 70)

Too easy, it is I who must be silent, hold my breath.

L'Innommable Segment 1270, version 8 (Minuit 1971, p. 85)

Mais non, il faut que je me taise, que je retienne mon souffle.