Samuel Beckett
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Synoptic Sentence View: Sentence 888

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Molloy Segment 888, version 1 (MS-HRC-SB-4-6, f. 23r)

Et c'est à l'anthropologie, je le dis sans honte, que j'ai failli rester fidèle, à cause de son admirable côté négatif, de l'acharnement je veux dire qu'elle met à définir l'homme, à l'instar de Dieu, en termes de ce qu'il n'est pas,

Molloy Segment 888, version 2 (Minuit 1951, p. 58)

Ce que j'aimais dans l'anthropologie, c'était sa puissance de négation, son acharnement à définir l'homme, à l'instar de Dieu, en termes de ce qu'il n'est pas.

Molloy Segment 888, version 3 (Minuit 1953, p. 58)

Ce que j'aimais dans l'anthropologie, c'était sa puissance de négation, son acharnement à définir l'homme, à l'instar de Dieu, en termes de ce qu'il n'est pas.

Molloy Segment 888, version 4 (MS-WU-MSS008-3-49, f. 45r)

What I liked in anthropology was its inexhaustible faculty of negation, its relentless definition of man, as though he were no better than God, in terms of what he is not.

Molloy Segment 888, version 5 (MS-WU-MSS008-3-50-1, f. 45r)

What I liked in anthropology was its inexhaustible faculty of negation, its relentless definition of man, as though he were no better than God, in terms of what he is not.

Molloy Segment 888, version 6 (Olympia 1955, p. 52)

What I liked in anthropology was its inexhaustible faculty of negation, its relentless definition of man, as though he were no better than God, in terms of what he is not.

Molloy Segment 888, version 7 (Grove Press 1955, p. 52)

What I liked in anthropology was its inexhaustible faculty of negation, its relentless definition of man, as though he were no better than God, in terms of what he is not,

Molloy Segment 888, version 8 (Olympia and Grove Press 1959, p. 48)

What I liked in anthropology was its inexhaustible faculty of negation, its relentless definition of man, as though he were no better than God, in terms of what he is not.

Molloy Segment 888, version 9 (Minuit 1971, p. 63)

Ce que j'aimais dans l'anthropologie, c'était sa puissance de négation, son acharnement à définir l'homme, à l'instar de Dieu, en termes de ce qu'il n'est pas.