Rubin Rabinovitz

Michèle Aina Barale

Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable

A KWIC Concordance to Samuel Beckett's Trilogy

The Development of Samuel Beckett's Fiction

Michèle A. Barale

A KWIC concordance to Samuel Beckett's trilogy: Molloy, Malone dies, and The unnamble

A KWIC Concordance to Samuel Beckett's Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, and the Unnamable

Examines the works of Amis, Wilson, and Snow from 1950-the 1960's to discover the reasons for, and manifestations of, an apparent change in English literary taste after World War ll.

The Reaction Against Experiment in the English Novel, 1950-1960

Readers often find Beckett's fiction forbidding because he abandons conventional methods and introduces new formal devices. In Innovation in Samuel Beckett's Fiction Rubin Rabinovitz, a pre-eminent Beckett scholar, provides comprehensive descriptions of those devices, explains how they are used, and clarifies how they contribute to Beckett's underlying ideas. As an example, Rabinovitz points out that more than 1,000 significant elements recur in Beckett's trilogy of novels, Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable. These emphasize elusive ideas, such as the mysterious affinities of thought linking the protagonists in these works or suggestions that different characters represent aspects of a single embryonic persona who is never explicitly described. Rabinovitz also discusses Beckett's use of narrative, chronology, setting, characterization, allusions, mythic parallels, and figurative language.

Innovation in Samuel Beckett's Fiction

Rubin Rabinovitz

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