Watt vs Malone Dies

Watt is a novel by Irish writer Samuel Beckett, first published in English in 1953 by Olympia Press. Its protagonist, Watt, enters the household of the mysterious Mr. Knott and attempts to describe the routines and events there through increasingly elaborate explanations. The book uses repetition, logical puzzles, disrupted syntax, and comic digressions to examine the limits of language and reason...

Malone Dies is a 1951 novel by Irish writer Samuel Beckett and the second book in the trilogy that also includes Molloy and The Unnamable. Its narrator, Malone, is an old and seriously ill man confined to a bed, who passes time by recording possessions, observations, and invented stories while awaiting death. The novel uses a sparse, self-conscious narrative to examine memory, bodily decline, stor...