| 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...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 have,... | |
| James Olney - 1998 - 456 pagina’s
...beginning of the historical, philosophical, psychological process that issues finally in Beckett's "I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you...know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on." When I say that the justification, validation, and necessity of writing one's life are established... | |
| Willem van Reijen, Willem G. Weststeijn - 2000 - 356 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...know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on." (1959: 418). We will come back to this passage later and see whether the self is lacking as radically... | |
| David Bell - 1999 - 248 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, p. 382) Then comes Rilke's point: that by acknowledging the presence of nullity in... | |
| Thomas Cousineau - 1999 - 182 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" (179). I suspect, however, that many readers of The Unnamable never reach this moment of ecstatic fulfillment... | |
| Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 pagina’s
...form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now. Proust (1961) 20 Where I am, 1 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. The U inminable (1959) 21 Nothing to be done. Waiting ¡or Godot ( 195 s ) act l 22 There's a man all... | |
| James Elkins - 1999 - 284 pagina’s
...over in the same room. The Unnamable ends: ". . . you must say words, as long as there are any ... 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."9 Shit is not the only excretion that paint recalls, and the alchemists were right to stress that... | |
| Edward Larrissy - 1999 - 266 pagina’s
...minimalism in (say) Samuel Beckett was offset against a stoicism of syntactical accretion, the Unnamable's 'in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on'.5 And in the case of Ashbery there is not only the periodic affinity with Beckett (most of all... | |
| Edwin N. Wilmsen - 1999 - 190 pagina’s
...selection as their exclusive cultural property.51 Absurd. Better to back off with Beckett: where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know . . . better to speak gently out of a hard life; better to teach how to cook rabbits and not eat them... | |
| David Weisberg - 2000 - 206 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. (179) This affirmation of the ability to use one's gift, no matter how painful, is also remarkable... | |
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