Samuel Beckett e a "literatura da despalavra": a reinvenção do romance em Molloy

Abstract

The objective of this thesis is to identify which procedures Beckett uses in his novel Molloy in order to deconstruct the realist novel and to reinvent it in a literary aesthetics based on the deconstruction of language itself. Written in 1947, this work marks a new direction in Beckett's writing, which is transformed into what he calls the 'literature of the unword', thus bringing the genre to a different, self-reflexive level. By questioning the authority of the narrator, Beckett turns the systematization of doubt into the subject matter of the narrative. We investigate the trajectory of the narrators and discuss their function in a narrative that where the plot and action are less important than the presentation of the progressive degradation of the first-person narrators. Among the considerations on crisis of the novel, we analyze the elements that the narrator uses to deconstruct language, such as repetition, bilingualism, and language games.