How It Is

How It Is is a novel by Samuel Beckett published in 1964. It consists of a monologue by the narrator as he crawls through apparently endless mud, and reminisces on his life. The mud appears to be a kind of purgatory. The title is Beckett's translation of the original French, Comment c'est, a pun on commencer or 'to begin'. The theme may be the struggle of form to emerge from formlessness using Leopardi's sense of the world as mud ('E fango è il m... more

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Samuel Beckett

Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde writer, dramatist and poet. Beckett's work offers a bleak outlook on human culture and both formally and philosophically became increasingly minimalist. As a student, assistant, and friend of James Joyce, Beckett is...
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