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The Unnamable (2017 Film)
The Unnamable may refer to: * ''The Unnamable'' (novel), a 1953 novel by Samuel Beckett * "The Unnamable" (short story), by H. P. Lovecraft * ''The Unnamable'' (film), a 1988 film based on the H. P. Lovecraft short story {{DEFAULTSORT:Unnamable, The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Unnamable (novel)
''The Unnamable'' is a 1953 novel by Samuel Beckett. It was originally published in French as ''L'Innommable'' and later translated by the author into English. Grove Press published the English edition in 1958. As part of the Trilogy Following the completion of ''Malone Dies'' in 1948, Beckett spent three months writing '' Waiting for Godot'' before beginning work on ''The Unnamable'', which he completed in 1950. ''The Unnamable'' is the final volume in Beckett's "Trilogy" of novels, which begins with ''Molloy'' and continues with ''Malone Dies''. As Benjamin Kunkel observes, "The trilogy proceeds by way of collapse. Beckett’s successive monologuists, confined to a series of small rooms, try and fail to tell their stories; and each narrator is then revealed to be the alias, and each story the alibi, of its successor, until, pulling all of Beckett’s earlier creations down upon its nonexistent head, there is only the disembodied voice of the Unnamable." In this way, according ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Unnamable (short Story)
"The Unnamable" is a horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in September 1923, first published in the July 1925 issue of ''Weird Tales'', and first collected in ''Beyond the Wall of Sleep''. The corrected text appears in '' Dagon and Other Macabre Tales'', (revised ed, 1986). The story's locale was inspired by the Charter Street Historic District Burying Ground in Salem.H. P. Lovecraft, letter to Duane W. Rimel, Feb 14, 1934 Plot Carter, a weird fiction writer, who is likely Randolph Carter who features in some of Lovecraft's other tales such as "The Statement of Randolph Carter", meets with his close friend, Joel Manton, in a cemetery near an old, dilapidated house on Meadow Hill in the town of Arkham, Massachusetts. As the two sit upon a weathered tomb, Carter tells Manton the tale of an indescribable entity that allegedly haunts the house and surrounding area. He contends that because such an entity cannot be perceived by the five senses, it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |