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Fuck you Beckett. Would it kill you to give me a goddamn chapter break every once in a while?

>> No.18297767
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18297767

>>18297735
>I'm sorry, son, I didn't realise human shittin consciousness had bloody chapter breaks...

>> No.18297810

>>18297735
>needs the author to pick breaks for him
ngmi

>> No.18297821

>>18297735
sam beckett hates literature. his novels are exhausted with the novel form. it's pathetic--not the opening of a new horizon for literature, but its descent into an autistic death-spiral with no mythopoetic purpose

>> No.18298036

>>18297821
The Unnamable? More like The Unreadable.

>> No.18298088

>>18297821
>are exhausted with the novel form
Which means crisis which means things to expand, seethe more, literature is not for you

>> No.18298201

>>18297821
do you think you sound smart?

>> No.18298242

>>18298088
Beckett is literally anti literature. Culture is not expanding in these novels, it's just despairing at its own decline. Molloy is self-conscious about how disgusting this is- it just has nothing else to offer beyond this recognition. Compare 'Ping', or any of his plays, where he literally just abandons everything that makes drama drama and produces no interesting effect. Beckett literally can't imagine anything but desolation, and his only use of the history of literature is as sterile parody.

An example of an actual expansion of the possibilities of literary culture, from loosely the same period of time, is Thomas Pynchon

>> No.18298514

Unnamable is good and makes the trilogy worth it.

>> No.18298593

>>18297735
Get hypnotized homothug

>> No.18299073

>>18298242
You are a tense looking but quite loose type of thinker, anon.

>> No.18299348

>>18298201
Wow Beckett lover why don't you just marry him huh??????

>> No.18299673

>>18297735
Beckett is the ultimate and final filter.

>> No.18300060

>>18297735
>>18297821
filtered
>>18297767
kek

>> No.18300085

How long would it take to read the first novel of Beckett's trilogy? for some reason I fear it's gonna be more tedious than Proust

>> No.18300119

>>18300085
He is way funnier than Marcel "dull" Proust, so that helps.

>> No.18300138

>>18300085
Not long since its short and the prose makes it an engaging read

>> No.18300175

>>18297767
Kek

>> No.18300186

>>18298242
>An example of an actual expansion of the possibilities of literary culture, from loosely the same period of time, is Thomas Pynchon
Too bad even his contemporaries avoided his "culture" like the Plague.

>> No.18300206

>>18297821
Have you ever actually read him? Molloy is a fucking joyous read, full to the brim with a kind of authorial playfulness that emerges only rarely in literature of any era.