num_pages: 256
description: Fiction. WATT was the beginning of Samuel Becket's post-war literary career, the fruition of the years in hiding in the Vaucluse mountains from the Gestapo, which also largely inspired WAITING FOR GODOT. But it remains, unlike the work that followed it, extremely Irish, a philosophical novel full of the grim humour that was already his trade-mark in such earlier fictions as MORE PRICKS THAN KICKS and MURPHY. The perambulations of WATT, especially in the home of the eccentric Mr. Knott, and the sketching of logic to elicit meaning, must be among the most comic inventions of modern literature. First published by the libertine Olympia Press in 1953, it has established itself as one of the most quoted and best-loved of Becket's novels. The typographical oddities and omissions are as Beckett left the text.
language: English
title: Watt
titlecomplete: Watt
characters: Mr. Hackett, Dum Spiro, Arsene (Watt), Mr. Graves, Mr. Evans, the newsagent, Mr. Cream, Tetty Nixon, Mr. Thompson (Watt), Larry Nixon, Mr. Colquhoun, Mr. Berry, Mr. Knott, Lady McCann, Erskine (Watt), Arthur (Watt), Watt, Goff Nixon
genres: Classics, Ireland, Irish Literature, Plays, Nobel Prize, Humor, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 3315
awards: awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Ars Translationis, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Mikael Agricola -palkinto
publisher: Riverrun Press