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Amazon.com Review Samuel Beckett's brilliance as a dramatist--as the creator of , , and that despairing pas de deux --has tended to overshadow his gifts as a novelist. Yet he's unmistakably one of the great fiction writers of our century. As a young man he took dictation (literally) from or Watt , give us a taste of what was to come. But Beckett truly hit his stride with a trilogy of early-1950s masterpieces: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable . Here he dispenses with all the customary props of contemporary fiction--including exposition, plot, and increasingly, paragraphs--and turns his attention to consciousness itself. Nobody has ever evoked the pain of existence, or the steady slide toward nonexistence, with such poetic, garrulous accuracy. And once you've attuned yourself to the epistemological vaudeville of Beckett's prose, he turns out to be the funniest writer on the planet--ever. None of the three entries in the trilogy is exactly amenable to summary. It's fair to say, though, that Molloy is the easiest to read, with at least a bare-bones narrative and an abundance of comical set pieces. In one famous episode, the narrator spends page after page figuring out how t

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Author
Beckett, Samuel
Publisher
Grove Press
Published
2009
Language
EN
ISBN
9780802144478
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance
Rating
4.28 / 5 (264 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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