Comment c’est

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Comment c’est is a French-language prose work by Samuel Beckett that explores fragmented consciousness and minimalist narrative form.

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instanceOf French-language literary work
novel
prose work
author Samuel Beckett NERFINISHED
copyrightStatus in copyright
countryOfOrigin France
creator Samuel Beckett NERFINISHED
genre experimental fiction
modernist literature
hasCharacter Pim NERFINISHED
unnamed narrator
hasForm unpunctuated blocks of text
hasLiteraryForm prose
hasSubject existential experience
fragmented consciousness
human condition
hasTranslation How It Is NERFINISHED
influencedBy James Joyce NERFINISHED
modernist narrative techniques
language French
literaryMovement Modernism
literaryPeriod 20th-century literature
narrativeForm fragmented narrative
stream of consciousness
narrativePerson first-person narrator
notableFor absence of conventional plot
experimental use of syntax
radical reduction of narrative elements
originalTitle Comment c’est
partOf Samuel Beckett’s prose works NERFINISHED
publicationDate 1961
publisher Les Éditions de Minuit NERFINISHED
relatedWork Malone Dies NERFINISHED
Molloy NERFINISHED
The Unnamable NERFINISHED
setting indeterminate landscape
structure three-part structure
style minimalist
repetitive prose
theme consciousness
isolation
language and its limits
memory
suffering
titleInEnglish How It Is NERFINISHED
translatedBy Samuel Beckett NERFINISHED
translatedInto English NERFINISHED

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How It Is originalTitle Comment c’est