Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Malone meurt / Malone Dies

MS-HRC-SB-7-4

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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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