Ecological Entropy in Samuel Beckett’s Nohow On (1989): An ‘Ecosophical’ Interpretation.

Inspired by Felix Guttari’s ‘ecosophical’ theory of the three ecologies (environment, society, and subjectivity), this paper is an ecocritical reading of Beckett’s collection of three prose pieces entitled Nohow On (1989). Nature, like Beckett’s characters in this collection, is mostly anonymous; it is equally silenced and hardly depictable especially in the first piece entitled Company and the last one entitled Worstward Ho. The story in the middle is entitled Ill Seen Ill Said where the pronouncement that there’s “No more sky or earth” is made; it is a pure parody of nature through the decadent and disintegrating life of an unnamed old woman. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]