| Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamable |  | Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: Grove Press
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ISBN: 0802144470
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 Beckett is cool! December 4, 2008
Mr. Ms. Tait
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
For anyone thinking of buying this excellent book and approaching Beckett for the first time id say that like Kafka hes a existentialist writer which means his work deals with the futility of the human condition. People often misunderstand him because he always tells you life is short and then u die, but he is also a very funny comic writer(Watt is the funniest novel ive read). He's also a very heroic writer because he explores the human condition in a contempory world of non-existents which for centurys writers deemed unusable for literature. The extraordinary static imargery in this book is derieved from his fluent knowledge in the history of painting which he also used in his plays. Becketts genius for tackling grim universal subjects in his writing is partly why hes one of the most important writers of the 20th Century.
the best book in the world January 1, 2008
philosofie
13 out of 16 found this review helpful
how anyone give Beckett's trilogy 1 star is beyond the limits of comprehension. It is my favourite book (especially the last installment, The Unnamable), and is absolutely mind-blowing.
It seems that both reviewers who find it unsatisfactory do so because of a gross misconception: that beckett's intention is to describe geriatric decline, or psychosis (indeed, the narrators are as far from archetypes as it is possible to be). This is simply not the case, and cruelly pigeonholes and misunderstands a work which concerns itself, really, with EVERYTHING. (oh, and if he were detailing his madness, as one reviewer seems to think, it would merely support the link between madness and genius!) As the reader progresses, all their assumptions about narrators, truth and the process of reading are undercut. reality and imagined scenarios blur, power relationships are confused...
i hope i am not making it seem grandiose or laborious (although you could never call it light reading). the texts appear aimless and digressive, but through their nothingness they challenge and inspire. maybe it's paradoxical, but through challenging all the devices of the novel form - ie plot, character, narrative - beckett creates one of the richest works i have ever read.
if this sounds too philosophical, don't be perturbed - the thing people tend to forget about Beckett is that he's actually really funny, in his sly way. i laughed out loud numerous times while reading the book. But most of all, Beckett's prose is simply beautiful. the imagining of his characters - who are delightfully idiosyncratic - are so vivid, elegiac and evocative.
So: mind-altering, funny, beautiful, and entirely unique. Sammy B, total legend. no wonder he won the nobel prize.
Devastating poetry-in prose December 27, 1999
10 out of 13 found this review helpful
Beckett, in these three novels, gives us a terrifying and hilarious masterclass in written English. Absolutely beautiful, quite indescribable poetry-in-prose. Must be read, with full attention, to be appreciated.
 trivializes and debases the geriatric mind August 22, 1999
3 out of 44 found this review helpful
Presumes to lay bare the geriatric mind, but comes nowhere near. Based on the ludicrous proposition that the aging process is hellish and unnatural. Beckett is the true godfather of MTV.
 THE TRILOGY THAT DESTROYS ITSELF June 27, 1999
3 out of 46 found this review helpful
All the narrators-Molloy, Malone, the Unnameable-are schizophrenic, as G.C. Barnard has noted; however, Beckett is not investigating varieties of the illness. He is entrapped in the fragmented defenses of that complex disorder. The trilogy's narrators are carrying out one of the major themes of Beckett's first novel, Murphy, that psychosis is preferable to either psychiatric help or normalcy.If Samuel Beckett had written Molloy and Malone Dies and had written The Unnameable in the omniscient author (showing us through style and structure that the Unnameable is deeply insane) - we could not identify those characters' problems with Beckett. The sameness of Beckett's themes alters only with the withering of his talents. Malone, like Sam in Watt as well as the narrator in "Stories" as well as Moran and Molloy, creates plots only to destroy them. In this respect, the narrator-artists are identical to Beckett himself. Twenty years-twenty years will pass between Molloy and "Imagination Dead Imagine" where Beckett has no plot, no dialogue, no characterization, no theme- except the theme of killing his imagination. Thirty years will pass between Molloy and Company and, aporetic as always, Beckett is still rewriting "Imagination Dead Imagine". The extraordinary story of twentieth century literature is that critics canonize Samuel Beckett's writings as works of genius when they are records of atrophy brought about by Beckett's mental illness.
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