…of literature, film, music. More importantly, it helped me understand how I want to live my life and from whence I now choose to derive my personal senses of direction and meaning. 2: Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies An obtuse, rambling, depressing novel without a sense of momentum or even plot. The narrator or narrators are unreliable, prone to aporetics, and capricious. Beyond its stark exterior, the prose is,…
It's definitely not the hardest "arthouse" novel (or whatever you call it), I found Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon so much more harder, and Beckett's Three Novels (i.e. Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable) was likely the most difficult text I attempted to read in my life. Even then, I think it's still pretty difficult for an average Western reader in 2020s, our literacy attention span and…
Your description of Malone Dies reminds me of Notes From Underground by Dostoevsky. I found it hard to get into at first because the prose was different from most books I've read (might be the translation, but the Narrator is also…
……文学、电影、音乐的。更重要的是，它帮我搞清楚了自己想怎样度过这一生，以及如今我选择从何处汲取属于我个人的方向感与意义感。第二本：萨缪尔·贝克特的《马龙之死》。一部晦涩难懂、絮絮叨叨、让人抑郁的小说，毫无推进感，甚至连情节都没有。叙述者（一个或多个）极不可靠，动不动就陷入疑难困惑，而且反复无常。除去冷峻的外表，其文笔……
…of literature, film, music. More importantly, it helped me understand how I want to live my life and from whence I now choose to derive my personal senses of direction and meaning. 2: Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies An obtuse, rambling, depressing novel without a sense of momentum or even plot. The narrator or narrators are unreliable, prone to aporetics, and capricious. Beyond its stark exterior, the prose is,…
它绝对算不上最难读的“文艺片”式小说（或者随便你怎么叫它），我觉得平钦的《万有引力之虹》要难啃得多，而贝克特的“三部曲”（即《莫洛伊》、《马龙之死》、《无法称呼的人》）可能是我这辈子尝试读过的最难读的文本。即便如此，我认为对于2020年代的普通西方读者来说，它依然相当难懂，我们的阅读注意力跨度以及……
It's definitely not the hardest "arthouse" novel (or whatever you call it), I found Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon so much more harder, and Beckett's Three Novels (i.e. Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable) was likely the most difficult text I attempted to read in my life. Even then, I think it's still pretty difficult for an average Western reader in 2020s, our literacy attention span and…
你对《马龙之死》的描述让我想起了陀思妥耶夫斯基的《地下室手记》。我一开始觉得很难读进去，因为文笔跟我读过的大多数书都不一样（可能是翻译的缘故，但叙述者本身也……
Your description of Malone Dies reminds me of Notes From Underground by Dostoevsky. I found it hard to get into at first because the prose was different from most books I've read (might be the translation, but the Narrator is also…