The Trilogy

Used a christmas gift cirtificate to pick up the infamous trilogy. Some say it is even more of an achievment than godot. Who agrees with that assesment? Hoping to read most of Malloy this weekend. I also bought Pinter complete v. 3 and Oryx and Crake.
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i agree with it

but assessments are just assessments

and achievement is a funny word

it depends on what you want to read

all three books and how it is and the lost ones had a big effect on me personally

godot is funnier tho

almost done with Malloy... it slays!

I definitely prefer the trilogy as well. As much as I enjoyed Godot as some of the other plays, they just don't get to me like his prose does.

I don't much like reading plays

I have enjoyed being in some though
just not much on reading them

though when I had to read all of Shakespeare
for a 10 eweek course
that wasn't so bad

Beckett for me
what I love
is the prose

in particular

the unnameable
and
How it is

spectacular pieces of writing!

I don't know. The Trilogy has some quite entertaining moments. Like when Molloy tries to figure out how to arrange the pebbles in his pockets so that he can cycle through sucking them without doubting that he sucked the same one twice. Or when Malone says, "But let us leave these morbid matters and get on with that of my demise." (Just a couple of examples.)

And nothing in Waiting for Godot ever made me laugh out loud, but then again I'm not so good at reading plays (I just can't visualize the happenings of a dramatic work (particularly dialogue) like I can prose).

Malone Dies lacks a little unity I would say. Malloy fucking rules though. Haven't gotten to the last book yet.

just finished the Trilogy and I definately think Malone Dies is the weakest. It has much less direction than Malloy and lacks the punch of The Unnamable.

I have to yet to get around to either of these. Could you perhaps share some thoughts about them?

I have to yet to get around to either of these. Could you perhaps share some thoughts about them?

the lost ones is very short and dry, and is maybe the equivalent to the sucking-stones passage being applied to the entire world. it's basically a little inferno involving a measured space, some caves, some ladders, and the naked desperate people who inhabit this area. it's all told scientifically, a bit like robbe-grillet, but with the emotion much more overt.

how it is is like an epilogue to the trilogy...with the expected further devolution or progress in excruciation for the unnameable one who's now pulling himself through the mud on his belly, effortfully, futilely, messily, while remembering vagrant thoughts like the taste of tuna sandwiches ("tunny")...if you responded to the trilogy then you'll wanna read this...

Does anyone know if there is a French edition of the Trilogy containing all three novels in one book?

Read most of the plays, but what's a good Beckett novel? Got Watt sitting here, don't know if I'll have time to get around to it and wanted to know if it was worth the read.

Watt is said to be great, but --eh-- be warned, it isn't exactly brimming with "plot".

This short review should give you an idea of what it's like:- Here

Watt is wonderful! The Trilogy is an exhaustive, sometimes exhausting and purposeful work of fiction. The books of the Trilogy are beatiful, lived, loved and earned and for me some of the dearest words of the planet. Beckett was a poet before he was anything else. I can choose (just) The Trilogy before How it is and the short prose, and the short prose is for the most magnificent

I got Malone sitting on my shelf, but should I better wait until I've read Molloy before, thus keeping it in chronological order?

I've read Murphy some months ago and feel the urge soon to return to Beckett again.

Yes, i'd say read molloy first. The novels are self reflexive and as you read you'll see that it's possible (!) to puzzle over who's who in any of the books.

*books of the trilogy, i meant to say

Thanks a lot for the hint!

So Malone will have to wait a little longer - until after Molloy.

oooh, I read Molloy and I started a reread immediately and I have reread it halfway through again, what an awesome writer. Oooh how amazing. What a poet. This is not prose as I am accustomed to it. This is poetry written in a way to *seem* like prose. But it's not. Makes you want to stop writing anytghing prose-ish immediatly. Or poetry, for that matter.

I have written nary a line during the past week and beckett's to blame.

he's a poet isnt he, first and foremost, and "if i go on long enough calling that my life, i'll end up by believing it. It's the principle of advertising"

I'm tempted to folow tatz examlpe, re those who see a loathing of humanity in Sam

fuck you in your purblind fuckwittery

or better still "Simply try for one hour to behave like gentlemen"