Ill Seen Ill Said by Samuel Beckett - 1988-05-19

Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated, 1981. Hardcover. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Grove Press, 1981. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,300grams, ISBN:0394522338

New York: Grove Press, 1981. 59pp. Ends of spine book & Dj lightly bumped; owner name ffep. 1st Am. Edition. Trans. from French by Author.. 1st Am.. Hb. VG/VG.

new york: grove press, 1981. review. paperback. fine./fine. very mild shelfwear and foxing..

Stated First Printing. In fine condition, clean and unmarked, in a fine dust jacket, crease at corner, publisher's price intact on flap.

New York: Grove Press, 1981. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Translated by the author. Endpapers with very faint offsetting, else fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing.

New York. 1981. Grove Press. 1st American Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0394522338. 59 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Paul McMillen. keywords: Literature Ireland. FROM THE PUBLISHER - ILL SEEN ILL SAID is among the most beautiful and disquieting of Beckett's later prose works. As though in an ever increasing awareness of the inadequacy of words to express an ill- apprehended reality. Beckett has chosen here to pare them down to their most expressive, letting a few words fall like bits of meaning to the page. ‘See now how words too. A few drops mishaphazard. Then strangury. To say the least. Less.' Our attention focuses on an old woman in a cabin ‘at the inexistent centre of a formless place.' She is part of the objects, landscape, rhythms and movements of an incomprehensible universe. We are not certain of her existence, of her actions, of the objects she sees and touches, nor can we be, as the viewer's perception of it all is obscured. ‘Such the confusion now… Read More

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.