Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
L'Innommable / The Unnamable
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Synoptic Sentence View: Sentence 1871

Versions

L'Innommable Segment 1871, version 1 (MS-HRC-SB-4-1, f. 05v)

L'air au fond duquel il git n'est pas fait pour eux, mais ils veulent qu'il respire le leur.

L'Innommable Segment 1871, version 2 (Minuit 1953, p. 146)

L'air au fond duquel il gît n'est pas fait pour eux, mais ils veulent qu'il respire le leur.

The Unnamable Segment 1871, version 3 (MS-HRC-SB-5-9-2, f. 30r)

The air in the midst of which he lies is not for them, but they want him to breathe theirs.

The Unnamable Segment 1871, version 4 (MS-HRC-SB-5-10, f. 81r)

The air in the midst of which he lies is not for them, but they want him to breathe theirs.

The Unnamable Segment 1871, version 5 (MS-WU-MSS008-3-71, f. 79r)

the air in the midst of which he lies is not for them, and yet they want him to breathe theirs.

The Unnamable Segment 1871, version 6 (Grove Press 1958, p. 99)

the air in the midst of which he lies is not for them, and yet they want him to breathe theirs.

L'Innommable Segment 1871, version 7 (Minuit 1971, p. 119)

L'air au fond duquel il gît n'est pas fait pour eux, mais ils veulent qu'il respire le leur.