- The
- second
- of
- the
- three
- greatest
- novels
- by
- the
-
- era-defining
- Nobel
- laureate
- ,
- reissued
- for
- a
- new
- generation.Nothing
- is
- more
- real
- than
- nothing.Malone,
- a
- decrepit
- old
- man,
- lies
- naked
- in
- his
- bed,
- scrawling
- bitter
- observations
- in
- an
- exercise
- book.
- He
- is
- fed
- on
- a
- bed-table,
- his
- chamber
- pot
- is
- emptied,
- he
- hooks
- items
- with
- his
- stick,
- he
- looks
- out
- of
- the
- window.
- He
- tells
- the
- story
- of
- a
- man,
- looked
- after
- by
- nurses,
- taken
- for
- an
- ill-fated
- picnic
- on
- an
- island
- in
- the
- sea.
- As
- his
- mind
- disintegrates,
- so
- does
- the
- novel
- .
- .
- .Malone
- Dies
- is
- the
- second
- of
- the
- three
- great
- novels
- Samuel
- Beckett
- produced
- during
- his
- 'frenzy
- of
- writing'
- in
- the
- late
- 1940s.
- The
- others
- are
- Molloy
- and
-
- The Unnamable.
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