How It Is

Blurb

How It Is is a novel by Samuel Beckett first published in French as Comment c'est by Les Editions de Minuit in 1961. The Grove Press published Beckett's English translation in 1964. An advance text of his English translation of the third part appeared in the 1962 issue of the Australian literary journal, Arna.
L'Image, an early variant version of Comment c'est, was published in the British arts review, X: A Quarterly Review, and is the first appearance of the novel in any form.
The novel is a monologue by the narrator as he crawls through endless mud, recalling his life separated into three distinct periods.