Author(s): Beckett, Samuel
Reader(s): Barrett, Sean
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Classic Fiction
Period: 20th Century
Catalogue No: NA533712
Barcode: 9789626343371
Release Date: 07/2005

BECKETT, S.: Unnamable (The) (Unabridged)

The Unnamable is the third novel in Becket’s trilogy, three remarkable prose works in which men of increasingly debilitating physical circumstances act, ponder, consider and rage against impermanence and the human condition. The Unnamable is without doubt the most uncompromising text, and it is read here in startling fashion by Sean Barrett.

Tracklist

Disc 1
Beckett, Samuel - Author
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
1Where now? Who now? When now?03:39
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
2Malone is there03:40
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
3Let us try and see where these considerations lead05:11
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
4That I am not stone deaf is shown…04:30
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
5Why did I have myself represented…03:13
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
6The other advances full upon me03:31
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
7Perhaps it is time I paid a little attention…03:40
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
8How, in such conditions, can I write…03:30
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
9I hope this preamble will soon come to an end…04:53
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
10I, of whom I know nothing…03:22
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
11Can I keep nothing then…04:21
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
12I’ll ask no more questions…03:54
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
13But this is thinking again03:51
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
14But now, is it I now, I on me…03:57
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
15But let us first suppose…04:52
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
16Let the man explain himself…03:40
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
17Labyrinthine torment that can’t be grasped…03:33
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
Disc 2
1And yet sometimes it seems…03:47
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
2But obstacles, it appears, can be removed…04:09
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
3In the evening, after supper…03:53
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
4This touching picture of my situation…03:48
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
5From that moment on…05:02
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
6So let us consider now what really occurred04:31
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
7What is strange is…04:02
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
8I might as well tell another of Mahood’s stories…05:02
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
9I hope this gives a fair picture…05:11
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
10This story is no good…04:13
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
11Wrong again, wrong again…05:29
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
12The last step!05:10
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
13Yes, I feel the moment has come…04:17
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
14Two labours then…04:45
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
15On now to serious matters…04:15
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
Disc 3
1Worm, worm, it’s between the three of us…04:26
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
2What is there to add, to these particulars?05:10
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
3But enough of this cursed first person…04:09
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
4I shall now sum up01:51
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
5Hours have passed…04:32
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
6Others. One alone, then others03:48
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
7Ah if only they could begin…03:34
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
8Where am I?04:51
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
9But one thing at a time03:21
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
10Of what is it the time to speak?05:47
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
11But let us close this parenthesis…04:10
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
12He’s coming, that’s the main thing02:47
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
13They look, to see if he has stirred04:03
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
14It is strange they do not go…03:26
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
15But the eye, let’s leave him his eye…04:42
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
16But Worm suffers only from the noise…04:31
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
17Some simple thing, a box…03:54
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
Disc 4
1But what calm, apart from the discourse…04:10
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
2Is there then no hope?05:54
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
3Forward!04:22
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
4Perhaps they are somewhere there…03:03
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
5But a little animation now…05:05
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
6But this isn’t Worm speaking02:51
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
7But how can you think and speak…04:08
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
8This will never end…03:32
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
9Oh I know…05:41
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
10But come to think of it…04:50
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
11How all comes right in the end…03:22
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
12And now for the it, I prefer that…03:45
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
13Go mad, yes…02:43
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
14The fact is they no longer know…04:47
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
15… I hear them…04:11
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
16… it’s a lie, what would I understand with…05:21
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
Disc 5
1But I really mustn’t ask…04:48
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
2Yes, but there it is…04:06
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
3No no, no head either…04:12
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
4Now, there is no one left04:01
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
5And yet I have memories…04:00
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
6But it didn’t happen like that…03:28
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
7But once again the fable…05:13
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
8I notice one thing…04:58
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
9Someone speaks, someone hears…04:03
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
10He must have travelled…05:14
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
11The silence, a word on the silence…03:44
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
12They love each other…02:19
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
13The silence…03:57
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
14But when it falters…04:21
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
15I know it well03:34
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
16The place, I’ll make it all the same…04:10
Barrett, Sean (Reader)
17… I must be extremely old…06:42
Barrett, Sean (Reader)

Total Playing Time: 05:44:28