Adam Phillips · On Giving Up · LRB 6 January 2022

Our history of giving up – that is to say, our attitude towards it, our obsession with it, our disavowal of its...

Vol. 44 No. 1 · 6 January 2022 On Giving Up Adam Phillips Share on Bluesky Share on Facebook Share Email Print 6375 words You must go on. I can't go on. I'll go on. Samuel Beckett, The Unnameable 'F rom a certain point there is no more turning back. That is the point that must be reached.' This is one of Kafka's Zürau Aphorisms, written during the war - between 1917 and 1918 - just after he received a diagnosis of the tuberculosis that would eventually kill him. 'From a certain point there is no more turning back. That is the point that must be reached.' Why? Because there is always the t

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