Company (Masterplots II: World Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Samuel Beckett
- First Published: 1980
- Type of Work: Internal narrative
- Time of Work: The unspecified present
- Setting: In the mind of the creator
- Principal Characters: A Voice, A Listener, Another, The Father, The Son
- Genres: Long fiction, Existential literature
- Subjects: Memory, Parents and children, Philosophy or philosophers, Psychology or psychologists, Social issues, Alienation, God, Fathers, Storytelling, Metaphysics, Loneliness
- Locales: Mind of the creator
The Novel
“That then is the proposition. To one on his back in the dark a voice tells of the past.” The action of Company is fundamentally the narration of stories by a voice to a listener lying in the typical Beckettian darkness. Some of the elements of the story are verifiable, some are conjecture, some are prediction. Like all Samuel Beckett’s prose work, the narrative voice is that of the author, unable to cease telling stories, unable to express, yet obligated to express. Typical literary inquiries concerning the source of the voice, the identity of...
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