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"Misery to Stay, Misery to Go"

Journal Contribution - Journal Article

Subtitle:(Dis)Covering Joyce's Shipwreck in Beckett's Molloy
This essay performs a close reading of the Ulysses-passage from Beckett’s Molloy (1951) from the double perspective of the Ulysses-story from canto 26 of Dante’s Inferno (1317) and Joyce’s Ulysses (1922). The argument is that Molloy’s reverse journey on the black boat of Ulysses bears a strong self-reflexive dimension in which is at stake Beckett’s artistic freedom in relation to Joyce.
Journal: Samuel Beckett Today
ISSN: 0927-3131
Issue: 2
Volume: 28
Pages: 371-383
Publication year:2016
Keywords:Molloy, Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, Dante Alighieri, Murphy
Authors:Regional
Accessibility:Open