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    ● Sales Rank: #2724656 in Books


    ● Published on: 1959
    ● Binding: Paperback

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    54 of 59 people found the following review helpful.


    Roller-coaster existentialism, and fun, too!
    By John Hovig
    "Watt" is the hilarious story of an itinerant character who walks one day from a train station, like a homing
    pigeon, straight to the home of a man whom he will serve. He enters the kitchen to take his spot, whereupon
    the present kitchen worker issues a rambling monologue of stunning length and baffling content, then leaves
    the household for Watt to stay behind. In the first few pages, we are already asking: Why did Watt just show
    up? Whose house is this? Who is this man in the kitchen already? Why is he delivering this major
    dissertation? What does it all mean?
    The rest of the book concerns Watt's service to the master of the house, some of it conventionally narrated,
    much of it digressive and odd. To explain this book, however, is to sound ridiculous. A certain number of
    things happen to Watt, he takes a certain number of actions, he engages in a certain number of conversations,
    and he ends the story in the book in a certain meaningful fashion. The entire story is told in Beckett's
    trademark effusive style, a rollicking, bizzare, but highly entertaining profusion.
    The meaning of the book is also classic Beckett: Don't wait for Higher Meaning, because there is none. All
    his books portray absurd characters doing absurd things, waiting for life to reveal itself, but ultimately
    realizing that life reveals itself through the living. To answer the questions posed above, the book is compsed
    like a circle, just like life. At the same time, it's also completely meaningless, just like life. We go to some
    place, we stand in some position, we engage with some people, we commit some acts, we turn and commit
    other acts, and we engage with some other people. Somehow, among all this ballet, the world still turns, and
    we still live upon it. For all their foolish sounding, Beckett's books do indeed have a meaning, that life is just
    the living of it.
    Beckett is a psychological master. His prose style will never be repeated. I'd call him the Babe Ruth or
    Michael Jordan of literature, a crude analogy, for which we should apologize, but it is one that we hope
    reflects the major impact of his work on the art, and his primacy among its literary practitioners.
    Beckett's work is random by no means. It is carefully crafted, and has an internal rhythm all its own. If a
    reader is willing to take off their shoes and run through the squishy mud of Beckett's life-swamp, so to speak,
    it is a joy to read and great fun to reflect upon. "Watt" is a good example of his work, relatively short, and
    relatively simple, but still likely to provoke great consternation among any who are not used to Beckett's
    gushing and admirable style, but great enjoyment among those who take it on its own life-affirming terms.
    Beckett is a great writer for those readers who seek a literary puzzle, a semantic challenge, and a story with a
    surreal whiff, which tells us how wonderful it is just to be alive, enjoying our time on earth. "Watt" is one of
    Beckett's more accessible and fun works.

    10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.


    Funny AND Avant-garde
    By Q
    This novel is SO funny! I know it's an avant-garde masterpiece and all, but it's also hilarious. I guess if we
    read it straight, we would have to conclude that the protagonist, Watt, is schizophrenic, along with the
    narrator also, probably. The characters are not realistic. Plot actions seem completely random and
    unmotivated. Watt's characteristic action is to consider every possibility in every situation, and every
    possible combination of possibilities. There's one part that had me laughing out loud. Watt is some kind of
    minor servant in a household, and his orders are to feed the leftovers to the dog. But there is no dog! So Watt
    dreams up all these far-fetched and absurd schemes for finding a dog to feed the leftovers to. I couldn't stop
    laughing, but my friends say I have a weird sense of humor.

    7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.


    It's so hard to get good help in a Beckett novel...
    By Mark Nadja
    To a house in the country comes an enigmatic man named Watt to take the place of an outgoing servant in
    the household staff of a man equally enigmatic, Mr. Knott. From this commonplace beginning, Samuel
    Beckett weaves a most uncommon tale that can perhaps only be accurately described as...well, Beckettian.

    Watt is of that distinctive tribe of shabby, decrepit, stumblebums who are regularly featured as "heroes" of
    Beckett's work. In the case of the present novel, Watt becomes obsessively preoccupied with the habits,
    duties, and peccadilloes of the other household staff and, in particular, of his erstwhile new employer, the
    aforementioned, Mr. Knott. Clever how Beckett has Watt--a cipher himself--trying to decipher another
    cipher, Mr. Knott. To Watt, his employer, who he eventually comes to dress and undress, remains an elusive
    albeit binding mystery. But then virtually everything presents itself as a mystery to Watt and becomes the
    subject of long, tortured, and mostly humorous super-logical speculations that seek to take every possible
    explanation into account for even the most mundane phenomenon--with invariably absurd results. What you
    have is the literary equivalent of the old proverb of the spider who asked the centipede how it manages to
    walk with all those legs--and the centipede trying to explain suddenly finds he can't take another step without
    falling. The same sort of paralysis grips Watt's efforts to understand Mr. Knott and, for that matter, the
    absurdity of life in general. It's an affliction very common to characters in Samuel Beckett's work--and
    probably one that strikes a sympathetic chord in the experience of his most appreciative readers.

    Indeed, significant portions of *Watt* will likely try the patience of lesser fans comprised as these portions
    are of quasi-Biblical lists of absurd comprehensiveness, extended series of repetitions detailing, for instance,
    all the possible permutations a man might manage when shodding his feet with the customary footwear
    available to him each morning: a shoe, a boot, a sock, and a slipper. Like a lot of Beckett, these kinds of
    ridiculously exhaustive lists of minutiae gather a certain sort of power and poetry when read aloud, but they
    are nearly impossible to get through with any profit while reading silently on a crowded bus, let's say.

    On the other hand, *Watt,* like *Mercier and Camier* is quite a bit more conventional than Beckett's later
    fiction; though, of course, "conventional" in regard to Beckett is a relative term. In this case, *Watt* features
    genuine dialogue, a range of character viewpoints, and, if not a plot in the ordinary sense, than a plot in the
    extraordinary sense.

    Mordant, ribald, dark, and grotesque, not to mention slapstick, sometime Three Stooges-like funny, *Watt*
    may not be Beckett at his peak, but he's clearly on his way--and Beckett anywhere on the climb is head and
    shoulders above just about anyone else.

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