How It Is - Samuel Beckett Oevers In Le Spleen de Paris

In Le Spleen de Paris schetst hij portretten van rouwende weduwen

De deernen Thérèse

Ondertussen wordt ze teruggevoerd naar haar jeugd

a storm of protest is provoked throughout the country

How It Is - Samuel Beckett Oevers In Le Spleen de ParisPublished in French in 1961, and in English in 1964, How It Is is a novel in three parts, written in short paragraphs, which tell (abruptly, cajolingly, bleakly) of a narrator lying in the dark, in the mud, repeating his life as he hears it uttered or remembered by another voice. Told from within, from the dark, the story is tirelessly and intimately explicit about the feelings that pervade his world, but fragmentary and vague about all else therein