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prose in earnest, it was in a very different manner from what
     he had discovered in
The Unnamable
, which, in this sense, at least, remains a kind of
ne plus ultra.
This is not quite to say that it had no issue, for in some ways the novel might be
     said to have seeded many of the later works. The monologue
Not I,
for example, may be seen as another attempt to dramatise the obstinate abstention
     from being that characterises the novel. In this sense,
The Unnamable
remains at the enigmatic heart of Beckett’s writing, and of critical writing about
     Beckett.

References
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The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett: A Reader’s Guide to His Works, Life, and Thought.
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Naming Beckett’s Unnamable.
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Texas Quarterly,
1, pp. 129–31
    ——— (1958b). ‘Excerpt:
The Unnamable.’ Chicago Review,
12.2, pp. 82–6.
    ——— (1958c). ‘The Unnamable.’
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(Santa Barbara), 2, pp. 3–7.
    ——— (1959a).
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    ——— (1959b).
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    ——— (2000) ‘Where Now? Who Now?’ Trans. Richard Howard. Reprinted in
Samuel Beckett
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Table of Dates
    Where unspecified, translations from French to English or vice versa are by Beckett.
     
1906
 
 
13 April
 
Samuel Beckett [Samuel Barclay Beckett] born in ‘Cooldrinagh’, a house in Foxrock,
     a village south of Dublin, on Good Friday, the second child of William Beckett and
     May Beckett, née Roe; he is preceded by a brother, Frank Edward, born 26 July 1902.
1911
 
 
 
 
Enters kindergarten at Ida and Pauline Elsner’s private academy in Leopardstown.
1915
 
 
 
 
Attends larger Earlsfort House School in
Dublin.
1920
 
 
 
  
Follows Frank to Portora Royal, a distinguished Protestant boarding school in Enniskillen,
     County Fermanagh (soon to become part of Northern Ireland).
1923
 
 
October
 
Enrols at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) to study for an Arts degree.
1926
 
 
August
 
First visit to France, a month-long cycling tour of the Loire Valley.
1927
 
 
April–August
 
Travels through Florence and Venice, visiting museums, galleries and churches.
December
 
Receives BA in Modern Languages (French and Italian) and graduates first in the First
     Class.
1928
 
 
Jan.–June
    
Teaches French and English