Beckett, "Molloy": language of silence

Authors

  • Mario García Mora Universitat de Barcelona

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.2020333902

Keywords:

Molloy, Beckett, German Letter, language, meaning

Abstract

In his German Letter (1937), Beckett wrote about the meaningless of English, his mother tongue: “my own language seems to me more and more like a veil that has to be torn”. To break that veil the autor exposes what will be his literary program point by point. I pretend to use him to understand in depth his first novel: Molloy (1951). At the same time, I would say that the journey cannot be done in one direction: the reading of Molloy from German Letter is parallel to the reading of German Letter from Molloy. 

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Published

2020-01-18

How to Cite

García Mora, M. (2020). Beckett, "Molloy": language of silence. Tropelías: Review of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, (33), 153–167. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.2020333902

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Received 2019-08-26
Accepted 2019-12-04
Published 2020-01-18