Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable [Paperback]

Samuel Beckett (Author)

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ISBN-10: 071451053X | ISBN-13: 978-0714510538 | Publication Date: January 1976

Fiction. The Trilogy has always been considered the central work of Samuel Beckett's fiction (winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1969), the three novels that have been most admired and have received the greatest amount of critical comment, just as Waiting for Godot written in the same period of concentrated creativity between 1947 and 1949, is central to Beckett's drama. "Beckett's oeuvre towers above that of most of his peers, as of his forebears and followers, because it's such a model of integrity: the beauty that is truth" -- Michail Howowitz.

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Text: English, French (translation)

Product Details

• Paperback: 418 pages
• Publisher: Calder Publications (January 1976)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 071451053X
• ISBN-13: 978-0714510538
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,171,435 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin in 1906. He was educated at Portora Royal School and Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1927. His made his poetry debut in 1930 with Whoroscope and followed it with essays and two novels before World War Two. He wrote one of his most famous plays, Waiting for Godot, in 1949 but it wasn't published in English until 1954. Waiting for Godot brought Beckett international fame and firmly established him as a leading figure in the Theatre of the Absurd. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. Beckett continued to write prolifically for radio, TV and the theatre until his death in 1989.

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3.0 out of 5 stars A triumph of his own style, May 23, 2000

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This review is from: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (Paperback)

An amazing book with a stylish touch that explores the paradox of the self that can never know itself; in the very act of observing itself the self splits in two, an observing consciousness and an object that is being observed. The self perceives itself as a stream of words, a narration. Each time it tries to catch up with itself, it merely turns into another story, thus putting before the reader a succession of storytellers. A must-read for anyone who cares about literature and who think that it still matters.