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“I forgot half the words”: Samuel Beckett’s Molloy as Minor Literature
- Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 14, Number 1, January 2016
- pp. 21-31
- 10.1353/pan.2016.0000
- Article
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In their book Kafka Deleuze and Guattari mention Samuel Beckett as a prime example of a minor writer. The article explores this insight about Beckett’s practice as a minor writer, focusing on his first novel published in French, Molloy (1951). It further inquires into the importance of multilingualism to the change in Beckett’s style after World War II and its connection with the transition from English to French.