- Paperback: 418 pages
- Publisher: Calder Publications Ltd; New edition edition (27 Sep 1973)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 071451053X
- ISBN-13: 978-0714510538
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.4 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 600,202 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The greatest realist novel ever written,
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This review is from: Trilogy: "Molloy", "Malone Dies", "Unnameable" (Calderbooks) (Paperback)
The trilogy is a single novel, with around a dozen scenes; the titles are largely irrelevant. It is just as good a novel in French, but both are worth reading as they play subtle tunes off each other.Beckett is essentially a realist novelist. Most of the places described really exist. Even the non-existent places are realistically depicted. Feel the ambience. Read it for the plot. The story is clear and morally uplifting. Even a little over-simplistic. "I can't go on.I'll go on."! Read How it is for the next episode. The trilogy leads on from Watt so there is a prequel. It is now routine to describe Beckett as the greatest writer in English of the Twentieth Century. Pardon me, some of us have known this for a long time, and it isn't because of Godot that we think it. There is one caveat. Beckett succeeded in his writing so emphatically because he limited himself to a range of themes which he mastered totally. He didn't take too many risks. He is the greatest, but there were others who had greater courage, and a noble failure sometimes outweighs a gem-like triumph. I make two further claims about Beckett and myself. 1. I may be the all-time champion for youngest reader of at least part of the trilogy. In 1958 when I was eleven I read about half on Malone Dies, before the terror hit me. I had borrowed it because I thought that it was a thriller. I never forgot it and I read the trilogy around four years later. Never looked back. 2. Purely by accident I have sat at the very table Beckett is sitting at in the picture on the front of this edition. I never knew this before today because my copy is the first edition, with a really nice abstract design on the cover.
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A triumph of his own style,
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This review is from: Trilogy: "Molloy", "Malone Dies", "Unnameable" (Calderbooks) (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.
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