Stories for Nothing: Samuel Beckett's Narrative Poetics

Stories for Nothing: Samuel Beckett s Narrative Poetics is the first book to examine Samuel Beckett s trilogy and post-trilogy works, specifically in terms of their divergent approaches to narrative subjectivity. By comparing the narrational processes of Molloy, Malone meurt, and L Innommable, Paul [...]
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Stories for Nothing: Samuel Beckett s Narrative Poetics is the first book to examine Samuel Beckett s trilogy and post-trilogy works, specifically in terms of their divergent approaches to narrative subjectivity. By comparing the narrational processes of Molloy, Malone meurt, and L Innommable, Paul B. Kelley demonstrates that the negativity informing the trilogy has its underpinnings in Beckett s Proust. Culminating in the narrative aporetics of L Innommable, this negativity is subsequently overcome in experimental fashion in post-trilogy works such as Textes pour rien, Comment c est, and Compagnie. The result is a poetics of exhaustion whose pivotal significance for the Beckettian subject is explored."