L’Innommable

E501012
novel

L’Innommable is a 1953 novel by Samuel Beckett, written in French, that presents a fragmented, introspective monologue exploring identity, existence, and the limits of language.

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Label Occurrences
The Unnamable 2
L’Innommable canonical 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf novel ⓘ
author Samuel Beckett NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfOrigin France ⓘ
firstPublisher Les Éditions de Minuit NERFINISHED ⓘ
follows Malone Dies NERFINISHED ⓘ
Molloy NERFINISHED ⓘ
genre experimental fiction ⓘ
modernist novel ⓘ
philosophical fiction ⓘ
hasEnglishTitle The Unnamable NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasOpeningLine “Where now? Who now? When now?” NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasPageCountApprox around 200 pages ⓘ
hasTranslation English translation by Samuel Beckett ⓘ
influenced experimental prose writers ⓘ
postmodern narrative techniques ⓘ
languageStyle stream of consciousness ⓘ
literaryMovement modernism ⓘ
postmodernism ⓘ
literaryPeriod 20th-century literature ⓘ
mainCharacter unnamed narrator ⓘ
voice called Mahood ⓘ
voice called Worm ⓘ
narrativeForm first-person monologue ⓘ
interior monologue ⓘ
notableFeature circular, repetitive language ⓘ
fragmented narrative ⓘ
minimal plot ⓘ
philosophical monologue ⓘ
originalLanguage French ⓘ
originalTitle L’Innommable NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf Samuel Beckett’s Trilogy NERFINISHED ⓘ
philosophicalContext absurdism ⓘ
existentialism ⓘ
placeOfFirstPublication Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ
publicationDecade 1950s ⓘ
publicationYear 1953 ⓘ
seriesPosition third novel in Beckett’s Trilogy ⓘ
setting indeterminate interior space ⓘ
theme consciousness ⓘ
existence ⓘ
identity ⓘ
isolation ⓘ
metafiction ⓘ
nothingness ⓘ
self and other ⓘ
the limits of language ⓘ

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Molloy → followedBy → L’Innommable ⓘ
this entity surface form: The Unnamable
Malone Dies → followedBy → L’Innommable ⓘ
this entity surface form: The Unnamable
The Unnamable → originalTitle → L’Innommable ⓘ