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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eric P. Levy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: New Prairie Press 2003-06-01
Series:Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Online Access:http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol27/iss2/8