Watt

The work of Samuel Beckett is one of the most interesting and incisive of the last century. His extraordinary ability to expose the interstices of the social existence of human beings, through absurdity, humor and language games, left an indelible mark on literature and extended its conceptual frontiers to new limits. "Watt" is an experimental, philosophical, comic and unclassifiable novel that, among other things, constitutes an enormous exercise in metafiction. In it, its eponymous protagonist (Watt), a ragged man about whom we barely learn anything, spends two years as a servant in the house of Mr. Knott, an enigmatic and capricious landowner whose service lives in an atmosphere of oppressive tension. What exactly is going on at Mr. Knott's house? We do not know, and yet, as readers, we witness the disturbing transformation that the main character undergoes as a result, whose mental schemas completely break down.