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Watt

Author: Samuel Beckett

Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Published: 2009-06-16

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 080219835X

In prose possessed of the radically stripped-down beauty and ferocious wit that characterize his work, this early novel by Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett recounts the grotesque and improbable adventures of a fantastically logical Irish servant and his master. Watt is a beautifully executed black comedy that, at its core, is rooted in the powerful and terrifying vision that made Beckett one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.

Molloy ; Malone Dies ; The Unnamable

Author: Samuel Beckett

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13:

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After the Final No

Author: Thomas Cousineau

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 9780874136623

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This study, while surveying all of Samuel Beckett's major fiction, focuses on the work that he regarded as his masterpiece: the trilogy of novels Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable. It analyzes the ways in which Beckett, as he moves from one novel to the next, demystifies each of the principal idols to which human beings have looked for protection and guidance in the successive phases of their history. In part one of Molloy this role is assumed by the figure of the mother and the various women who minister to Molloy's needs in the course of his journey. In part two, these maternal figures are replaced by Youdi and other male authority figures, including Father Ambrose, who embody the rule of paternal law. In Malone Dies, we enter the period of modern individualism, in which, freed from dependence upon the parental figures that had dominated Molloy, Malone ("man alone") looks vainly to himself for the guidance that they had formerly provided.

The Unnamable

Author: Samuel Beckett

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2012-10-04

Total Pages: 109

ISBN-13: 0571266924

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The iconic trilogy of novels by the era-defining Nobel laureate, relaunched for a new generation. I can't go on, I'll go on. Molloy: a sordid vagrant riding his bicycle through the countryside, sucking stones, on a quest for his mother. Moran: a private detective sent on his trail, investigating his crimes - but soon to deteriorate alongside him. Malone: an octogenarian man on his deathbed, naked in piles of blankets, wiling away the time with stories - writing, reminiscing, raging, surviving. The Unnameable: an armless and legless creature from a nameless place, weeping and watching in his urn, orbited by visitors outside a chop-house. Together, these selves speak, debate, exist: the prose as alive, or more, than them. 'The master innovator of them all.' Guardian

Impotence and Making in Samuel Beckett's Trilogy Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable and How it is

Author: Joanne Shaw

Publisher: Brill

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789042029736

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Impotence and Making in Samuel Beckett¿s Trilogy is situated at the intersection of the aesthetic, socio-political and theoretical construction of being and not-being; it is about making the self, making others, and making words, set against being unable to make the self, others and words. Concentrating on Samuel Beckett¿s prose works, though also focusing on some of his dramatic works, the book aims to problematize the categories of `impotence¿ and `making¿ by showing Beckett¿s quasi-deconstructive treatment of them as seen through his narrators¿ images of being unable to make self, other creatures and words (impotence), along with his narrators¿ images of making self, other creatures and words (making). By demonstrating that his narrators, while being impotent, nevertheless gestate and produce new entities from their bodies in the same way as a mother does a child, the book aims to reveal how, for Beckett¿s narrators, creativity in its widest sense is envisaged.

Trilogy

Author: Samuel Beckett

Publisher: Calder Publications Limited

Published: 1997-09-30

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 9780714541075

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Malone Dies

Author: Samuel Beckett

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2012-10-04

Total Pages: 105

ISBN-13: 0571266916

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'Malone', writes Malone, 'is what I am called now.' On his deathbed, and wiling away the time with stories, the octogenarian Malone's account of his condition is intermittent and contradictory, shifting with the vagaries of the passing days: without mellowness, without elegiacs; wittier, jauntier, and capable of wilder rages than Molloy. The sound I liked best had nothing noble about it. It was the barking of the dogs, at night, in the clusters of hovels up in the hills, where the stone-cutters lived, like generations of stone-cutters before them. it came down to me where I lay, in the house in the plain, wild and soft, at the limit of earshot, soon weary. The dogs of the valley replied with their gross bay all fangs and jaws and foam...

Murphy

Author: Samuel Beckett

Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Published: 2011-01-11

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780802198365

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Murphy, Samuel Beckett’s first published novel, is set in London and Dublin, during the first decades of the Irish Republic. The title character loves Celia in a “striking case of love requited” but must first establish himself in London before his intended bride will make the journey from Ireland to join him. Beckett comically describes the various schemes that Murphy employs to stretch his meager resources and the pastimes that he uses to fill the hours of his days. Eventually Murphy lands a job as a nurse at Magdalen Mental Mercyseat hospital, where he is drawn into the mad world of the patients which ends in a fateful game of chess. While grounded in the comedy and absurdity of much of daily life, Beckett’s work is also an early exploration of themes that recur throughout his entire body of work including sanity and insanity and the very meaning of life.

Dark Eden

Author: Chris Beckett

Publisher: Crown

Published: 2014-04-01

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 0804138699

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On the alien, sunless planet they call Eden, the 532 members of the Family shelter beneath the light and warmth of the Forest’s lantern trees. Beyond the Forest lie the mountains of the Snowy Dark and a cold so bitter and a night so profound that no man has ever crossed it. The Oldest among the Family recount legends of a world where light came from the sky, where men and women made boats that could cross the stars. These ships brought us here, the Oldest say—and the Family must only wait for the travelers to return. But young John Redlantern will break the laws of Eden, shatter the Family and change history. He will abandon the old ways, venture into the Dark…and discover the truth about their world. Already remarkably acclaimed in the UK, Dark Eden is science fiction as literature; part parable, part powerful coming-of-age story, set in a truly original alien world of dark, sinister beauty--rendered in prose that is at once strikingly simple and stunningly inventive.

Beckett and Zen

Author: Paul Foster

Publisher: Wisdom Publications (MA)

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13:

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Applies an understanding of Zen Buddhism to the 'absurdity' of Beckett, which is seen as an expression of deepest spiritual anguish.