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Few works of contemporary literature are so universally acclaimed as central to our understanding of the human experience as Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett’s famous trilogy. Molloy, the first of these masterpieces, appeared in French in 1951. It was followed seven months later by Malone Dies and two years later by The Unnamable. All three have been rendered into English by the author.
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““Come on, we’ll soon be dead, let’s make the most of it. But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying, I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.”
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Beckett glimpsed into the dark corridors of language, channeling its mystery and impenetrability through wildly unceasing and bizarre characters. The descent that marks the opening pages of Molloy down to the final pages of The Unnamable is a steep one.
What you’re really doing as you read this trilogy is climbing down this steep slope. It’s a different kind of plummeting into the depths of a story; the pillars which previously you used to walk past without so much as a glance will now, thanks to Beckett’s carnal and cathartic writing, force you to stop and recoil in their unpitying and disfigured appearances.
The bareness of existence has a voice in this story and it’s quite unheard of in fiction. Somewhere along the way, imagination bleeds, dreams metamorphose into sensations, and memory turns liquid and flows like mud. So try, if you must, to escape this labyrinthine trap that Beckett purposefully set you up for, but it’ll all be in vain.
This is lucid and magnetic writing if ever there was one. The last 50 pages or so of The Unnamable have the best lines I’ve ever read. I ended up underlining nothing because I wanted to underline EVERYTHING.
There aren’t many fictions that are as strange as Beckett’s as he is pegged as “the greatest master of nothing” and the insatiable consciousness of this very style of his is what makes his novels so transcendental and unforgettable. I wonder how far Beckett’s writing takes you when you complement it with the words of William Blake: “As a man is, so he sees.””
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