Malone Dies (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Samuel Beckett
- First Published: 1951
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Absurdist
- Time of Work: 1940’s
- Setting: A hospital
- Principal Characters: Malone, Saposcat/Macmann, Moll
- 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
The Story:
Malone, an old man, was sitting in a hospital bed writing. He heard the sounds of other men coming and going; then, he recalled having been brought there in an ambulance. He was bedridden, almost incapable of movement. His memory was unreliable; he did not know whether he was recalling memories or inventing them. Then, abruptly, he began a story about a man named Saposcat. “I wonder if I am not talking yet again about myself,” he mused. A page later, however, Malone noted, “Nothing is less like me than this patient, reasonable child.”
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