Books like Malone Dies
Malone, old and bedridden in a room he does not remember coming to, passes the time until his death telling himself stories and taking an inventory of his possessions.
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The Unnamable
A voice, placeless and without a body it can be sure of, talks on and on, trying to say who it is and to stop talking.
Molloy
A decrepit wanderer looking for his mother, and the agent Moran, sent to find him, each tell stories that dissolve as they go, in the first novel of Beckett's trilogy.
Cosmos
Two young men renting rooms in a Polish country house find a hanged sparrow in the woods and become obsessed with a web of signs that may or may not mean anything.
One, No One and One Hundred Thousand
When his wife remarks that his nose tilts to the right, Vitangelo Moscarda realises that everyone sees a different man, and sets out to destroy every one of the Moscardas others believe in.
Six Characters in Search of an Author
A play: a theatre company rehearsing a Pirandello comedy is interrupted by six strangers, a family of characters abandoned by their author, who demand that their unfinished drama be staged.
Satantango
In the mud and rain of a collapsing Hungarian collective farm, the last villagers hear that a charismatic man they thought dead is coming back, and he leads them into a new scheme.
At Swim-Two-Birds
A lazy Dublin student lies in bed writing a novel about Dermot Trellis, a novelist who makes his characters live with him in a hotel, where they plot against him while figures from Irish legend and cowboy westerns wander in.
The Eye of the Storm
Elizabeth Hunter, old, rich and dying in her Sydney house, receives her children, an actor from London and a princess by marriage from France, who have come home for the inheritance.
The Box Man
A nameless man cuts a window in a cardboard box, puts it over his head and begins to live inside it, writing the notebook the reader holds.
The Rabbit Hutch
In the last summer of a decaying Indiana tenement called La Lapinière, a 19-year-old foster-care graduate and her three male housemates try to hold a life together.
If on a winter's night a traveler
A Reader begins a novel called If on a winter's night a traveler, but the book keeps breaking off and restarting as a different novel, ten times.
Klingsor's Last Summer
In the last summer of his life, the painter Klingsor, forty-two, burns through drink, love and colour in the villages above an Italian-Swiss lake.