Category: world-literature
- Beyond StoryThe Unnamable from Three Novels by Samuel Beckett. Grove Press. 407 pp. $15.95. Much to my chagrin, The Unnamable was too much for me. I was doing well with Beckett, reveling in the sentences, not letting the strangeness of his Three Novels bother me. Molloy did seem to be about Everyman, the way all of our ...Read more
- How Can You Tell?Malone Dies from Three Novels by Samuel Beckett. Grove Press. 407 pp. $15.95. I think that Malone Dies, the second novel in Beckett’s famous trilogy, concerns the creative process. At the beginning of the novel Malone (the name is arbitrary; it could just as easily be Molloy, or Moran) is in some kind of institution flat ...Read more
- I Believe the Word is EntropyMolloy from Three Novels by Samuel Beckett. Grove Press. 407 pp. $15.95. I’m not sure I’ve ever read a stranger book than Molloy, the first novel in the famous trilogy that Samuel Beckett published in his early forties. It makes no sense whatsoever, especially in its first eighty-five pages. It concerns a man—the eponymous narrator—who has ...Read more
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