num_pages: 476
description: Samuel Beckett's mordant and exhilarating trilogy represents the high-water mark of Modernism. Written in the late 1940s at the same time as Waiting for Godot - the Absurdist drama which brought the Irish writer international fame - these three desolate monologues on the human condition turn conventional first-person narrative upside down to disturbingly surreal effect and are illuminated by flashes of black humour.In his distinctive prose, spare, neutral and elegant (he first wrote in French to better achieve this effect), Beckett shows, as no other author has ever done, human consciousness moving towards disintegration, defiantly pitting language, with all its deficiencies, against the ultimate silence.
language: English
title: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
titlecomplete: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
characters: Youdi, Molloy, Jacques Moran, Lady Pedal, Ernest (Malone Dies), Malone (Malone Dies), Molloy's mother, Jacques Moran II, Macmann (formerly Sapo), Maurice (Malone Dies), Moll, Lemuel (Malone Dies)
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Irish Literature, Novels, Philosophy, Plays, Fiction, Ireland
ratings_count: 8845
series: The Trilogy
awards: awardedAt: -283968000000
name: Premio Formentor de las Letras
category: International
publisher: Everyman's Library