Abstract

The Unnamable, the final book of Samuel Beckett's trilogy of novels, presents paradox in the moment-to-moment duration of experiential time, rather than as a contradiction in the realm of logic. The book remains engaged in the paradoxical, is at grips with impossibility1 (Blanchot 147, my emphasis). Beckett gives us paradox as a mode or aspect of reality. This is the reality which Georges Bataille has described in Beckett's work as

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