''Ill Seen Ill Said'' is a short novel by

Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal and Tragicomedy, tr ...

. It was first published in French as ''Mal vu mal dit'' in 1981, and was then translated into English by the author in 1982. It was also published in the October 5, 1981 edition of

The New Yorker ''The New Yorker'' is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Founded as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is published 47 times annually, with five of these issues ...

. Together with ''

Company A company, abbreviated as co., is a legal entity representing an association of people, whether natural, legal or a mixture of both, with a specific objective. Company members share a common purpose and unite to achieve specific, declared ...

'' and ''

Worstward Ho "Worstward Ho" is a prose piece by Samuel Beckett. Its title is a parody of Charles Kingsley's ''Westward Ho!''. Written in English in 1983, it is the penultimate novella by Beckett. Together with ''Company A company, abbreviated as co. ...

'', it was collected in the volume '' Nohow On'' in 1989.

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