After the final no : Samuel Beckett's trilogy

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Label

After the final no : Samuel Beckett's trilogy

Title remainder

Samuel Beckett's trilogy

Statement of responsibility

Thomas J. Cousineau

Creator

• Cousineau, Thomas

Subject

• Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989
• Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 -- Fictional works

Language

eng

Summary

• 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

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

843/.914

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

LC call number

PQ2603.E378

LC item number

Z6 1999

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography