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So let's talk about this a bit. I'm currently reading The Unnamable after being mind-blown by Molloy and Malone Dies. The books are fantastically written and are enjoyable and relatable even though they are really cryptic and puzzling.
It seems to be quite personal and almost autobiographical since the voices of the narrators in the trilogy are quite similar, with similar logic of thinking and perceiving the world around them. Currently it all looks to me like Beckett is trying to demonstrate his particular emotional states through these characters, solve them and/or come to terms with. The Unnamable seems to be the most personal since I find some allusions to the creative process. It also seems inspired by poststructuralist philosophy, which wouldn't be that off since a) he's French and b) he is a postmodern writer after all, both chronologically and stylistically.
What is your take on this trilogy? Is The Unnamable = Malone after he died? Is Beckett the narrator in all three novels? WW2 induced PTSD?
Elaborate.
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>>9825874
>since a) he's French
kek.
he's irish. lived in france and wrote in french.
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>>9825901
hahahahahaha that's what I meant, sorry
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>>9825874
>WW2 induced PTSD?
I don't think so. He hid in Southern France for most of the war, being wanted for helping the Resistance (by typing little messages and passing them on) and in the immediate aftermath of the war he drove an ambulance for a hospital. Hardly PTSD inducing stuff. Never saw any fighting.
The letters he wrote to friends later on are another indication. He almost never mentions the war or anything connected to it.
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It's obvious that while he was writing the Unnameable the narrator is at least at times Beckett. It doesn't sound like he is yet in Molloy though.
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>>9826010
This is useful, I haven't read almost any of his letters. Thanks.
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>>9826130
Well I don't know really. People find Molloy and Moran to be really quite similar, but somehow I am feeling a larger difference between those two rather than the Unammable and Molloy. Not sure.
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