Digital Manuscript ProjectMalone meurt / Malone Dies
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Transcribed by: Dirk Van Hulle & Pim Verhulst
Holding Library: Harry Ransom Center (MS SB/7/4)
Abbreviated in the Manuscript Chronology as FN2
'Malone meurt.' Autograph manuscript, signed, dated at the beginning, 27 November
1947; dated upon completion, 30 May 1948, 322 pp., folio. Written in various colored
inks in two notebooks, the first of which contains the final sections of Watt. With autograph revisions, additions, and deletions, and a number of characteristic
doodles and mathematical calculations. Both notebooks bear the original title, 'L'Absent.'
The inside back covers, flyleaves, and final pages have notes in English and in French
pertaining to Watt and to 'L'Absent.' On the cover of the second notebook Beckett
has written: 'L'Absent - Original title of Malone meurt. Part I in Watt VI [sic] Notebook. Samuel Beckett. This concludes original MS.' This
manuscript, like the one for Molloy, is dated at regular intervals throughout - with
less frequency, however. Beckett retraced (parts of) sentences at several instances
in this notebook.
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Editors: Dirk Van Hulle, Pim Verhulst and Vincent Neyt