{"product_id":"21669-beckett-samuel-malone-dies-signed","title":"Beckett, Samuel. (1906–1989) Malone Dies  - SIGNED","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eSoftcover edition of Malone Dies, signed and inscribed on the title page in black ink by the\u003c\/span\u003e 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. \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eWritten immediately after the completion of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"\"\u003eMolloy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e, and finished in the summer of 1948, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"\"\u003eMalone Dies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e is the second novel in Beckett's \"Trilogy.\" \u003c\/span\u003eFirst published in 1951, in French, as \u003ci style=\"\"\u003eMalone meurt\u003c\/i\u003e, and later translated into English by the author, \u003ci style=\"\"\u003eMalone Dies\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci style=\"\"\u003eMurphy\u003c\/i\u003e (1938). L\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eike \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"\"\u003eMolloy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"\"\u003eMalone Dies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e 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.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093788741791,"sku":"21669","price":575.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Beckett_MaloneSigned_21669a.png?v=1722190363","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/21669-beckett-samuel-malone-dies-signed","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}