Samuel Beckett
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Malone meurt / Malone Dies
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Synoptic Sentence View: Sentence 411

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Malone meurt Segment 411, version 1 (MS-HRC-SB-7-2, f. 62r)

J'ouvrirai les yeux, je me regarderai trembler, j'avalerai ma soupe, je regarderai le petit tas de mes possessions, je donnerai à mon corps les vieux ordres dont je le sais auxquels je le sais incapable d'obéir, je demanderai des renseignements à consulterai ma conscience périmée, je gâcherai mon agonie pour mieux mieux la vivre, loin déjà du monde qui se dilate enfin et me laisse passer.

Malone meurt Segment 411, version 2 (Minuit 1951, p. 26)

J'ouvrirai les yeux, je me regarderai trembler, j'avalerai ma soupe, je regarderai le petit tas de mes possessions, je donnerai à mon corps les vieux ordres que je le sais incapable d'exécuter, je consulterai ma conscience périmée, je gâcherai mon agonie pour mieux la vivre, loin déjà du monde qui se dilate enfin et me laisse passer.

Malone Dies Segment 411, version 3 (MS-TCD-4662, f. 15v)

I shall open my eyes, I shall look me at me trembling, I shall swallow my soup, I shall look at my little heap of possessions, I shall give my body the old orders that I know it cannnot execute perform, I shall take counsel of my spirit gone to rack and ruin, I shall spoil my agony the better to live it through, far already from the world that parts its labia at last and lets me out.

Malone Dies Segment 411, version 4 (MS-WU-MSS008-2-47, f. 15r)

My eyes, I shall open my eyes, look at the little heap of my possessions, give my body the old orders I know it cannot obey, turn to my spirit gone to rack and ruin, spoil my agony the better to live it out, far already from the world that parts at last its labia and lets me go.

Malone Dies Segment 411, version 5 (MS-HRC-SB-4-3, f. 15r)

My eyes, I shall open my eyes, look at the little heap of my possessions, give my body the old orders I know it cannot obey, turn to my spirit gone to rack and ruin, spoil my agony the better to live it out, far already from the world that parts at last its labia and lets me go.

Malone Dies Segment 411, version 6 (MS-UoR-1227-7-11-1, f. 15r)

My eyes, I shall open my eyes, look at the little heap of my possessions, give my body the old orders I know it cannot obey, turn to my spirit gone to rack and ruin, spoil my agony the better to live it out, far already from the world that parts at last its labia and lets me go.

Malone Dies Segment 411, version 7 (Grove Press 1956, p. 12)

My eyes, I shall open my eyes, look at the little heap of my possessions, give my body the old orders I know it cannot obey, turn to my spirit gone to rack and ruin, spoil my agony the better to live it out, far already from the world that parts at last its labia and lets me go.

Malone meurt Segment 411, version 8 (Minuit 1971, p. 24)

J'ouvrirai les yeux, je me regarderai trembler, j'avalerai ma soupe, je regarderai le petit tas de mes possessions, je donnerai à mon corps les vieux ordres que je le sais incapable d'exécuter, je consulterai ma conscience périmée, je gâcherai mon agonie pour mieux la vivre, loin déjà du monde qui se dilate enfin et me laisse passer.