" ... published in five editions: An Evergreen book (E-117); A cloth bound edition; A specially bound limited edition of 100 numbered copies; A specially bound and signed edition of 26 copies, numbered A through Z; A specially bound and signed edition of 4 copies, hor commerce, numbered 1 through 4"--Preliminary leaf
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"The obsessive narrator, who opens the novel asking, "Where now? Who now? When now?" is a disembodied person, living in a large jar in a restaurant window in Paris. Essentially "unnameable," the narrator is referred to as Mahood, Worm, and Basil, in a series of tales. The final sentence in the novel is a long dramatic monologue. The narrator concludes with the desire to continue living despite an inescapable sense of anguish and entropy: "I can't go on, I'll go on." " (Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, accessed online 11/14/2019)
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Innommable.
Language (when part of a heading)
English
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
French fiction-- 20th century, Translations into English.