Summary
Samuel Beckett: Malone dies
Illustrated by Boris Dogan
Malone (man alone?), the titular "hero" of this demanding read, a helpless old man, already at the beginning says that he is tired and that he does not know where he is and how he got there. Imprisoned in a room, he lies motionless in bed and only touches the objects around him with his eyes. He is reconciled to the inevitable, he remembers what he has experienced - maybe he is, in fact, Molloy from the first part of the trilogy, and maybe not... Beckett challenges all recollection because fiction can never escape from the closed circle of its own representations, therefore fiction must be exposed from the inside by its appearance, or in Beckett's words: "Nothing is as real as nothing."
Malone Dies is a work in which Samuel Beckett presents in his unique way a witty, expressive, and even poetic system, all the complexity of the relationship between the writer, his work and the characters, with the fact that in some way, he actually talks about "his work in weakness and ignorance". Patiently and meticulously, with a noticeable dose of black humor, he relentlessly records every detail as if he had experienced it himself. As in the remaining two novels from the latent trilogy, Molloy and The Nameless, the author obsessively writes here the discursive impotence of man in front of the wall of universal anxiety. His world is a world beyond and above sensory perception, because it breaks the boundaries of seeing and experiencing. That is why Beckett is still relevant, modern, avant-garde, inspiring...
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