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Malone Dies

Malone Dies
Samuel BeckettOriginal title Malone Meurt (French, 1951)

Malone Dies is a novel by Samuel Beckett. It was first published in 1951, in French, as Malone meurt, and later translated into English by the author.


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“I wish them all an atrocious life and then the fires and ice of hell and in the execrable generations to come an honoured name.”

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Malone Dies (1951)
Context: Let me say before I go any further that I forgive nobody. I wish them all an atrocious life and then the fires and ice of hell and in the execrable generations to come an honoured name.

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“The loss of consciousness for me was never any great loss.”

Samuel Beckett book Malone Dies

Malone Dies (1951)

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“Nothing is more real than nothing.”

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Malone Dies (1951), p. 16

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“I am such a good man, at bottom, such a good man, how is it that nobody ever noticed it?”

Samuel Beckett book Malone Dies

Malone Dies (1951)
Context: Or I might be able to catch one, a little girl for example, and half strangle her, three quarters, until she promises to give me my stick, give me soup, empty my pots, kiss me, fondle me, smile to me, give me my hat, stay with me, follow the hearse weeping into her handkerchief, that would be nice. I am such a good man, at bottom, such a good man, how is it that nobody ever noticed it?

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