Malone dies

Informationen zum Autor Samuel Beckett Klappentext ''Malone'', writes Malone, ''is what I am called now.'' On his deathbed, and wiling away the time with stories, the octogenarian Malone''s account of his condition is intermittent and contradictory, shifting with the vagaries of the passing days: without mellowness, without elegiacs; wittier, jauntier, and capable of wilder rages than Molloy. The sound I liked best had nothing noble about it. It was the barking of the dogs, at night, in the clusters of hovels up in the hills, where the stone-cutters lived, like generations of stone-cutters before them. it came down to me where I lay, in the house in the plain, wild and soft, at the limit of earshot, soon weary. The dogs of the valley replied with their gross bay all fangs and jaws and foam... Vorwort Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett, in a new edition of the classic novel, published for the first time by Faber with an introduction by Beckett scholar Peter Boxall. Zusammenfassung 'Malone', writes Malone, 'is what I am called now.' On his deathbed, and wiling away the time with stories, the octogenarian Malone's account of his condition is intermittent and contradictory, shifting with the vagaries of the passing days: without mellowness, without elegiacs;

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Samuel Beckett

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• Authors: Samuel Beckett, Beckett Samuel
• Assisted by: Bennett Claire-Louise (Introduction)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.06.2010
• EAN: 9780571244638
• ISBN: 978-0-571-24463-8
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Classics, Absurdism; Beckett; Modernism; Recollection; Storytelling, Classic fiction: general and literary