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Samuel Beckett · 1959
A trilogy comprising Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable—modernist novels exploring consciousness, identity, and narrative through the voices of isolated protagonists confronting existence and mortality.
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What this book knows
Consciousness dissolves selfhood from within: to think, speak, and move is already to fail, and that failure is all there is.
self-and-identity
I honestly believe I have answered the question I am asked and in reality I do nothing of the kind.
TN-RC-016It is thanks to them I find myself a meaning. So he whom a sudden pain awakes. He stiffens, ceases to breathe, waits.
TN-RC-109Was there one among them to put himself in my place, to feel how removed I was then from him I seemed to be?
TN-RC-017mind-and-cognition
Pausing then, and concentrating, so as not to make a balls of it, I transfer to the right pocket… the five stones in the right pocket of my trousers.
TN-RC-071I am far more he who finds than he who tells what he has found… I know scarcely any better where I am going.
TN-RC-131mortality
To old dogs the hour comes when, whistled by their master setting forth at dawn, they cannot spring after him.
TN-RC-186Illuminates
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