Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Malone meurt / Malone Dies
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Synoptic Sentence View: Sentence 2281

Versions

Malone meurt Segment 2281, version 1 (Minuit 1951, p. 181)

Costume noir d'une coupe surannée ou peut-être revenue à la mode, cravate noire, chemise d'une blancheur de neige, manchettes à la clown lourdement empesées lui cachant presque entièrement les mains, cheveux noirs calamistrés, faciès long, glabre, morne et comme enfariné, sombres yeux éteints, taille et corpulence moyennes, chapeau melon pressé délicatement du bout des doigts contre le bas-ventre d'abord, puis à un moment donné flanqué sur le crâne d'un geste d'une soudaineté et d'une sûreté extraordinaires.

Malone Dies Segment 2281, version 2 (MS-WU-MSS008-2-47, f. 131r)

Black suit of antiquated cut, or perhaps come back into the fashion, black tie, snow-white shirt, heavily starched clown's cugffs almost entirely covering the hands, oily black hair, a long, dismal, glabrous, floury face, sombre lacklustre eyes, medium height and build, block-hat pressed delicately to stomach with finger-tips, then without warning in a gesture of extraordinary suddenness and precision slapped on skull.

Malone Dies Segment 2281, version 3 (MS-HRC-SB-4-3, f. 131r)

Black suit of antiquated cut, or perhaps come back into the fashion, black tie, snow-white shirt, heavily starched clown's cugffs almost entirely covering the hands, oily black hair, a long, dismal, glabrous, floury face, sombre lacklustre eyes, medium height and build, block-hat pressed delicately to stomach with finger-tips, then without warning in a gesture of extraordinary suddenness and precision slapped on skull.

Malone Dies Segment 2281, version 4 (MS-UoR-1227-7-11-1, f. 131r)

Black suit of antiquated cut, or perhaps come back into the fashion, black tie, snow-white shirt, heavily starched clown's cugffs almost entirely covering the hands, oily black hair, a long, dismal, glabrous, floury face, sombre lacklustre eyes, medium height and build, block-hat pressed delicately to stomach with finger-tips, then without warning in a gesture of extraordinary suddenness and precision slapped on skull.

Malone Dies Segment 2281, version 5 (Grove Press 1956, p. 99)

Black suit of antiquated cut, or perhaps come back into the fashion, black tie, snow-white shirt, heavily starched clown's cuffs almost entirely covering the hands, oily black hair, a long, dismal, glabrous, floury face, sombre lacklustre eyes, medium height and build, block-hat pressed delicately to stomach with finger-tips, then without warning in a gesture of extraordinary suddenness and precision slapped on skull.

Malone meurt Segment 2281, version 6 (Minuit 1971, p. 159)

Costume noir d'une coupe surannée ou peut-être revenue à la mode, cravate noire, chemise d'une blancheur de neige, manchettes à la clown lourdement empesées lui cachant presque entièrement les mains, cheveux noirs calamistrés, faciès long, glabre, morne et comme enfariné, sombres yeux éteints, taille et corpulence moyennes, chapeau melon pressé délicatement du bout des doigts contre le bas-ventre d'abord, puis à un moment donné flanqué sur le crâne d'un geste d'une soudaineté et d'une sûreté extraordinaires.