Worstward Ho
Poetic piece by Samuel Beckett
"Worstward Ho" is a prose piece by Samuel Beckett. Its title is a parody of Charles Kingsley's Westward Ho!. Written in English in 1983, it is the penultimate novella by Beckett.
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Together with Company and Ill Seen Ill Said, it was collected in the volume Nohow On in 1989. Beckett’s most famous quote can be found in Worstward Ho – "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."[1]
References
- ^ "Worstward Ho". Genius. 2020. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
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