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"Molloy", "Malone Dies", "Unnameable" Paperback – 27 September 1973

by Samuel Beckett (Author)
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  1. ISBN-10
    071451053X
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0714510538
  3. Edition
    New
  4. Publisher
    Calder Publications Ltd
  5. Publication date
    27 September 1973
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    13.97 x 2.54 x 22.23 cm
  8. Print length
    418 pages
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Calder Publications Ltd; New edition (27 September 1973)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 418 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 071451053X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0714510538
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.97 x 2.54 x 22.23 cm
  • Customer Reviews:
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Samuel Beckett

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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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5.0 out of 5 stars This is Beckett at his very best a must read
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This is Beckett at his very best a must read . JD.
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The most complicated book to understand that I ever read.
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I have to read this for my postmodern Literature course. I don't want to throw required reading under the bus, because I truly feel that required reading is a good thing. But that in no way means I have to like what I have to read. This collection of books clearly falls under the umbrella of disliked.

Molloy is broken into two parts, neither of which are interesting. The first part is from the perspective of the character Molloy, a crazed old man who rambles on about nothing. How does Beckett accomplish this? By having an 85 page chapter contain two paragraphs, one of which is 83 and a half pages long. It is quite literally painful to read. The fact that there is a page and a half of fart jokes only adds to the groanworthiness and juvenility that is the story Molloy. The second part of Molloy is equally uninteresting, though not even really worth mentioning.

When it comes to Malone Dies, it becomes painfully apparent that Beckett lacks the ability to characterize. Malone is essentially the same character, with the same style of writing, as the characters in the previous story in the trilogy. His ramblings are equally pointless, long winded, and in paragraphs that are unnecessarily long (though truthfully no where near as long as Molloy). For a story about a man on his death bed, he sure takes his sweet time to die. A fact that Beckett even makes fun of at points, though honestly were the book anywhere near worth reading the comments would be funny. As it is, the book is painful and the comments on Malone taking his time to die feel like Beckett's attempt to recover from a very bad joke that no one found amusing. The feeling of a joke gone wrong, coupled with the long winded commentary by Malone about the time he ejaculated on his own face and proceeded to defecate his bed makes me honestly wonder how mature Samuel Beckett was when writing this story. It wasn't funny, it wasn't evocative; it was contrived and, for lack of a better word, juvenile.

I am thankful that I do not have to read The Unnamable. I will giddily sell this book as soon as the course is complete.
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