NMLP P-044783 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

The Unnamable (L'Innommable)

Samuel Beckett · Les Éditions de Minuit (Paris) · 1953

Original-language precedence: the French Minuit (Paris) 1953 edition is the true first of the work. The Grove Press (New York) 1958 English translation is the first edition in English and is separately collected; the first British edition followed from John Calder (London), 1959. Do not treat any English printing as the true first of the text.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-044783 for "The Unnamable (L'Innommable)" by Samuel Beckett (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044783, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).