Malone Dies and the Beckettian Mimesis of Inexistence
In the novel, it is not so much that Malone dies as that a mimetic convention concerning the representation of life is terminated or, more precisely, terminally minimalized. Through this reduction of life, Beckettian mimesis is enabled to represent a mode of existence unencumbered by antecedent asso...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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New Prairie Press
2003-06-01
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Series: | Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature |
Online Access: | http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol27/iss2/8 |