Malone Dies - SIGNED

London: Calder and Boyars. 1974. Softcover edition of Malone Dies, signed and inscribed on the title page in black ink by the important Irish novelist and playwright, "for [indecipherable] / from Samuel Beckett / with all best wishes / Paris August 1972." 8vo. 120 pp. Diagonal crease to front, else fine. 

Written immediately after the completion of Molloy, and finished in the summer of 1948, Malone Dies is the second novel in Beckett's "Trilogy." First published in 1951, in French, as Malone meurt, and later translated into English by the author, Malone Dies contains the famous line, "Nothing is more real than nothing" – a metatextual echo of Democritus' "Naught is more real than nothing," which is referenced in Beckett's first published novel, Murphy (1938). Like Molloy, Malone Dies furthers Beckett’s project to "empty the novel of its usual recognizable objects—plot, situation, characters—and yet to keep the reader interested and moved." (21669)

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