Malone Dies

<p><b>The second of the three greatest novels by the </b><b>era-defining Nobel laureate</b><b>, reissued for a new generation.<br></b><br><i>Nothing is more real than nothing.<br></i><br>Malone, a decrepit old man, lies naked in his bed, scrawling bitter observations in an exercise book. He is fed on a bed-table, his chamber pot is emptied, he hooks items with his stick, he looks out of the window. He tells the story of a man, looked after by nurses, taken for an ill-fated picnic on an island in the sea. As his mind disintegrates, so does the novel . . . <br><br><i>Malone Dies </i>is the second of the three great novels Samuel Beckett produced during his ''frenzy of writing'' in the late 1940s. The others are <i>Molloy </i>and<i> The Unnamable</i>.</p>