Books Details
Author : Samuel Beckett Pages : 127 pages Publisher : Grove
Press Language : eng ISBN-10 : 54042.Malone_Dies ISBN-13 :
9780802151179
Books Descriptions
Written and published in French in 1951, and in Samuel
Beckett?s English translation in 1956, Malone Dies is the
second of his immediate post-war novels, written during what
Beckett later referred to as ?the siege in the room?.?Malone?,
writes Malone, ?is what I am called now.? On his deathbed,
whittling away the time with stories and revisions of stories,
the octogenarian Malone's account of his condition is
contradictory and intermittent, shifting with the vagaries of
the passing days: without mellowness, without elegiacs;
wittier, jauntier, and capable of darker rages than his
precursor Molloy. Malone promises silence, but as a storyteller
he delivers irresistibly more.
