The Unnamable vs Watt

The Unnamable is a 1953 novel by Samuel Beckett, first published in French as L'Innommable and later translated into English by Beckett. It is the third and final volume of the trilogy that also includes Molloy and Malone Dies, and presents an unstable speaking voice whose attempts to identify, narrate, or end its discourse repeatedly break down. The book is suited to readers studying modernist fi...

Watt is a novel by Irish writer Samuel Beckett, first published in English in 1953 by Olympia Press. Its protagonist, Watt, enters the household of the mysterious Mr. Knott and attempts to describe the routines and events there through increasingly elaborate explanations. The book uses repetition, logical puzzles, disrupted syntax, and comic digressions to examine the limits of language and reason...