Questioning lies at the core of Samuel Beckett's fictional worlds. In The Unnamable, the thinking ability of the Cartesian I is questioned from the very beginning. In this way, any established certainty about self-identity, space (place and time), the Other, and, more importantly, language is questioned. Despite that, the whole narrative reveals an unending desire to "go on" so that the unnamable narrator or voice might finally find an internal peace, a sense or meaning. What differentiates him from the modernist characters is his ultimate disbelief in language in both rendering an ultimate...
Questioning lies at the core of Samuel Beckett's fictional worlds. In The Unnamable, the thinking ability of the Cartesian I is questioned from the ve...