Written in Roussillon during World War Two, while Samuel Beckett
was hiding from the Gestapo, Watt was first published in 1953.
Beckett acknowledged that this comic novel unlike any other 'has
its place in the series' - those masterpieces running from Murphy
to the Trilogy, Waiting for Godot and beyond. It shares their sense
of a world in crisis, their profound awareness of the paradoxes of
being, and their distrust of the rational universe. Watt tells the
tale of Mr Knott's servant and his attempts to get to know his
master. Watt's mistake is to derive the essence of his master from
the accidentals of his being, and his painstakingly logical
attempts to 'know' ultimately consign him to the asylum. Itself a
critique of error, Watt has previously appeared in editions that
are littered with mistakes, both major and minor. The new Faber
edition offers for the first time a corrected text based on a
scholarly appraisal of the manuscripts and textual history.
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