Malone Dies (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Samuel Beckett
- First Published: 1951
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Absurdist
- Time of Work: 1940’s
- Genres: Long fiction, Absurdist literature
- Subjects: 1950’s, Self-discovery, Memory, Traveling or travelers, Philosophy or philosophers, Psychology or psychologists, Authors or writers, Art or artists, 1940’s, Paris, Death or dying, Existentialism, Old age or elderly people
- Locales: Earth
Places Discussed
Asylum or hospital. Malone does not know where he is or how he got here, and since he is alone, no one else can answer his questions. All he can know for sure is that he is alone, disoriented, and baffled. Most immediately he is reliant on information his senses can provide, but since he is no longer capable of negotiating the world under his own power, what he can tell readers must come first of all from a fixed position. That he is in a room of spare furnishings is obvious enough simply from glancing around, and there is at least prima facie...
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