watts

Watt is the second "novel" written by Samuel Beckett, one of the few writers who left his mark on the century. Although it was written during World War II and Beckett was an active participant in the French resistance movement, it contains nothing about the war. So what is this novel about? With nothing! There is no plot (there is no plot anyway); If you talk about character, there are as many characters as you can count Watt or Mr. Knott, that is, to be fair; If you are looking for bright sentences and Joycean style acrobatics, we are sorry: Namevcut. Symbol-loving readers should also be warned in advance: In the last sentence, Beckett says, "Those who look for symbolic meaning in what I write should be at the mercy of those who seek symbolic meaning", be careful! Alright, what? There is a man named Watt, he doesn't even know how to laugh, he walks like a silent movie comic and talks strangely. In a strange need for "semantic precision", he names everything himself; He has to review in his mind all the possible ways of carrying out the most ordinary tasks (for example, giving food to a dog) and reconstruct them in the most reasonable way. (The text is full of mind-blowing reasoning of this kind, which may be boring to some and very entertaining to others). Watt enters the house of a Mr. Knott as a servant, stays for a while, and then leaves. That's what the "event" is all about. From time to time, a few grotesque people come in and out of the text. This is everything! What else; In our opinion, there is a unique, magnificent black humor, a brutal exposure of what is called "the nobility of the human species", especially the foolishness of the human mind, and a language that incredibly combines being extraordinarily simple and complex. A book that "makes you laugh but hurts". Indispensable for those who are willing to read "difficult" texts



Number of Pages: 214

Printing Year: 1993< br>

Language: Turkish
Publisher: Ayrinti Yayınlari

Number of Pages: 214

First Printing Year: 1993

Language: Turkish