How It Is
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How It Is is a novel by Samuel Beckett published in 1964. It consists of a monologue by the narrator as he crawls through apparently endless mud, and reminisces on his life. The mud appears to be a kind of purgatory.
The title is Beckett's translation of the original French, Comment c'est, a pun on commencer or 'to begin'.
The theme may be the struggle of form to emerge from formlessness using Leopardi's sense of the world as mud ('E fango è il mondo'), as well as Dante's image of souls...
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