Antiphonal, Mnemonic, and Recursive in Samuel Beckett's Molloy: A Narratological Study
Alireza Farahbakhsh1*,Atefeh Zolfaghari2
Citation : Alireza Farahbakhsh,Atefeh Zolfaghari, Antiphonal, Mnemonic, and Recursive in Samuel Beckett's Molloy: A Narratological Study International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature 2018, 6(2) : 14-22
The aim of the present article is to study the first novel of Samuel Beckett?s First Trilogy, Molloy, in the light of its narrative styles. Beckett wrote novels like First Trilogy, consisting of Molloy, Malone Dies, and the Unnamable, which altered the face of postmodernist novel and in which he presents the man as a nonknower. The article tries to answer the question of "how and to what extent the antiphonal, mnemonic, and recursive narrative styles have been employed in Beckett"s First Trilogy?? To answer this question, the novel is studied from a narratological point of view in terms of its narrative styles including antiphonal, mnemonic, and recursive. The article first presents a plot summary of the novel, then it finds the indications of the mentioned narrative styles in the novel. This article shows that the characters are confined to the memory of their past, so that even their past, present and future does not seem to exist as such. Their lives are chaotic in which nothing changes and there is no end although the characters struggle to find an end. Then, they fail in finding their true identities.