| Jacques B. H. Alblas, Richard Todd - 1979 - 140 pagina’s
...silence and non-being. It brings to mind the well-known last words of The Unnamable: , . . where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on. 19 Its style can also be seen as a further distillation of his concern with language and form with... | |
| P. J. Drudy - 1980 - 176 pagina’s
...of my story, that would surprise me, if it opens it will be I, it will be the silence, where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on. 17 Yet Beckett cannot be accused of misrepresenting reality in any of his characters since their... | |
| Richard Ellmann - 1989 - 534 pagina’s
...on my story, that would surprise me, if it opens, it will be I, it will be the silence, where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on. We began with a verse from a psalm; we end with what almost sounds like a mystic's méditation.... | |
| Lois Parkinson Zamora - 1989 - 254 pagina’s
...that runs throughout Samuel Beckett's The Unnamable (1959). Beckett's novel concludes: "where am I, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on." Though Barth departs from the affirmation of Beckett's conclusion, he clearly shares with Beckett... | |
| Alan Astro - 1990 - 250 pagina’s
...on my story, that would surprise me, if it opens, it will be I, it will be the silence, where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on. Superficially the Unnamable's promise to go on speaking, followed by a silence, resembles Proust's... | |
| Shira Wolosky, Shira Wolosky Weiss - 1995 - 356 pagina’s
...it seeks an "I in the silence where I am," retracts toward an "I" that goes on in language: "I don't know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on" (UNN, 414). Even the extreme negation of "Text 13" finally transforms into a generative power that... | |
| Rolf Wiggershaus - 1994 - 804 pagina’s
...Dies, were written in 1948, with The Unnamable following in 1949. The Unnamable closed with the words: 'in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.'51 Beckett did go on - with plays and texts in which, although the discursive meaning of the words... | |
| Susana Onega, Susana Onega Jaén - 1995 - 216 pagina’s
...Self-Conscious Fiction, 1 5. 25. In Esslin, ed., Samuel Beckett: A Collection of Critical Essays, 1. silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll en on.26 goon The existentialist Angst of Beckett's hero foreshadows the contemporary concern with... | |
| Marius Buning, Matthijs Engelberts, Sjef Houppermans - 1997 - 424 pagina’s
...my own story, that would surprise me, if it opens, it will be I, it will be the silence, where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on. (Beckett 1979, 381-82) The trilogy, then, seeks to deny the subject knowing that it can never be... | |
| Ronald Carter, John McRae - 1997 - 613 pagina’s
...Unnamable (1958) sums up the paradox of the 'absurd' life humankind leads in the words, 'Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on. I can't go on, I'll go on.' of what is said and not said. His characters do not have the capacity, that Beckett's characters... | |
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