Samuel Beckett
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L'Innommable / The Unnamable
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Synoptic Sentence View: Sentence 1860

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L'Innommable Segment 1860, version 1 (MS-HRC-SB-4-1, f. 04v)

Mais cette joie, Worm ne la dégustera qu'imparfaitement, étant moins qu'une bête, avant de redevenir ce tel qu'il était, ou peu s'en faut, avant le début de son histoire.

L'Innommable Segment 1860, version 2 (Minuit 1953, p. 144)

Mais cette joie, Worm ne la connaîtra qu'obscurément, étant moins qu'une bête, avant de redevenir tel qu'il était, ou peu s'en faut, avant le début de sa préhistoire.

The Unnamable Segment 1860, version 3 (MS-HRC-SB-5-9-2, f. 30r)

But Worm will never know this joy but darkly, being less than a beast, until before he is restored to the state in which he was, or more or less, before the beginning of his prehistory.

The Unnamable Segment 1860, version 4 (MS-HRC-SB-5-10, f. 80r)

But Worm will never know this joy but darkly, being less than a hbeast, before he is restored, more or mless, to that state in which he was before the beginning of his prehistory.

The Unnamable Segment 1860, version 5 (MS-WU-MSS008-3-71, f. 79r)

But Worm will never know this joy but darkly, being less than a beast, before he is restored, more or less, to that state in which he was before the beginning of his prehistory.

The Unnamable Segment 1860, version 6 (Grove Press 1958, p. 98)

But Worm will never know this joy but darkly, being less than a beast, before he is restored, more or less, to that state in which he was before the beginning of his prehistory.

L'Innommable Segment 1860, version 7 (Minuit 1971, p. 118)

Mais cette joie, Worm ne la connaîtra qu'obscurément, étant moins qu'une bête, avant de redevenir tel qu'il était, ou peu s'en faut, avant le début de sa préhistoire.