A return to the body : the failure of language and the dissolution of the self in Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable.

• Main Author: Tan, Benjamin Jonathan.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/52231
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The narrators in Samuel Beckett’s trilogy obliterate the idea that language is a stable tool for thought, reason and communication. They express this failure of language in a variety of ways, which result in grave implications for the prospects of understanding the world and everything therein. This...