Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
L'Innommable / The Unnamable
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Synoptic Sentence View: Sentence 1864

Versions

L'Innommable Segment 1864, version 1 (MS-HRC-SB-4-1, f. 05v)

Et cela est un bonheur pour lui, qu'il ne puisse pas bouger, mais s'il en souffre, car ce serait signer son arrêt de mort vie, que de bouger de là où il est, à la recherche d'un peu de calme, d'un peu de silence.

L'Innommable Segment 1864, version 2 (Minuit 1953, p. 145)

Et cela est un bonheur pour lui, qu'il ne puisse pas bouger, même s'il en souffre, car ce serait signer son arrêt de vie, que de bouger de là où il est, à la recherche d'un peu de calme, d'un peu du silence de naguère.

The Unnamable Segment 1864, version 3 (MS-HRC-SB-5-9-2, f. 30r)

And it is a blessing for him that he cannot move stir, even though he suffers because of it, for he would sign his condemnation to life, if he were to stir from where he is, in search of a little calm and something of the silence of old.

The Unnamable Segment 1864, version 4 (MS-HRC-SB-5-10, f. 80r)

And it is a blessing for him that he cannot stir, even though he suffers because of it, for it would be to sign his condemnation to life [] sentence, to stir from where he is, in search of a little calm and something of the silence of old.

The Unnamable Segment 1864, version 5 (MS-WU-MSS008-3-71, f. 79r)

And it is a blessing for him that he cannot stir, even though he suffers because of it, for it would be to sign his life-warrant, to stir from where he is, in search of a little calm and something of the silence of old.

The Unnamable Segment 1864, version 6 (Grove Press 1958, p. 98)

And it is a blessing for him he cannot stir, even though he suffers because of it, for it would be to sign his life-warrant, to stir from where he is, in search of a little calm and something of the silence of old.

L'Innommable Segment 1864, version 7 (Minuit 1971, p. 119)

Et cela est un bonheur pour lui, qu'il ne puisse pas bouger, même s'il en souffre, car ce serait signer son arrêt de vie, que de bouger de là où il est, à la recherche d'un peu de calme, d'un peu de silence de naguère.