Recent content by JackTres

Polly, the trouble with The Unnamable isn't its vocabulary; it's the feverish flitting thoughts of the narrator. Time and time again I come across entire strings of sentences which seem to have no connection to what proceeded and what follows. It's very tiring, feeling so adrift. (For those...

I love Beckett, especially his novels and novellas. I believe him to be one of the greatest dark humorists and visionaries of all time and I've greedily gobbled up his work and been to see his plays four times. That said, The Unnameable is killing me. It lapses into such disjointed abstraction...

The Feast of the Goat is decent, though at points I sensed the author struggling to supply sufficient historical background/exposition and still move the fiction forward. Those in the market for linguistic fireworks won't find any here (at least not in the translated version), but to my mind...