Samuel Beckett’s trilogy
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Samuel Beckett’s trilogy is a landmark sequence of three modernist novels—Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable—known for their bleak humor, experimental style, and exploration of identity and existence.
All labels observed (4)
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| Beckett’s novel trilogy | 1 |
| Samuel Beckett’s Trilogy | 1 |
| Samuel Beckett’s prose works | 1 |
| Samuel Beckett’s trilogy canonical | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Samuel Beckett’s trilogy Context triple: [Malone Dies, partOfSeries, Samuel Beckett’s trilogy]
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Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, and Nobel laureate best known for his bleakly comic, minimalist works such as the play "Waiting for Godot."
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Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Godot is a landmark absurdist play by Samuel Beckett in which two characters endlessly wait for the mysterious Godot, exploring themes of existentialism, time, and the human condition.
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James Joyce's Ulysses
James Joyce's Ulysses is a landmark modernist novel that parallels a single day in Dublin with the epic structure of classical myth, renowned for its stream-of-consciousness style and linguistic experimentation.
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Beckett on Film: Waiting for Godot
Beckett on Film: Waiting for Godot is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s iconic absurdist play, produced as part of the Beckett on Film project.
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Joyce
Joyce is the given name of Joyce Carol Oates, a prominent American author known for her prolific and award-winning literary work.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Samuel Beckett’s trilogy Target entity description: Samuel Beckett’s trilogy is a landmark sequence of three modernist novels—Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable—known for their bleak humor, experimental style, and exploration of identity and existence.
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A.
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, and Nobel laureate best known for his bleakly comic, minimalist works such as the play "Waiting for Godot."
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B.
Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Godot is a landmark absurdist play by Samuel Beckett in which two characters endlessly wait for the mysterious Godot, exploring themes of existentialism, time, and the human condition.
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C.
James Joyce's Ulysses
James Joyce's Ulysses is a landmark modernist novel that parallels a single day in Dublin with the epic structure of classical myth, renowned for its stream-of-consciousness style and linguistic experimentation.
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D.
Beckett on Film: Waiting for Godot
Beckett on Film: Waiting for Godot is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s iconic absurdist play, produced as part of the Beckett on Film project.
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E.
Joyce
Joyce is the given name of Joyce Carol Oates, a prominent American author known for her prolific and award-winning literary work.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work series
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novel sequence ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Beckett’s French trilogy
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linked to:
Beckett trilogy
Beckett’s novel trilogy ⓘ
linked to:
Samuel Beckett’s trilogy
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| author | Samuel Beckett ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| firstWork | Molloy ⓘ |
| firstWorkPublicationYear | 1951 ⓘ |
| genre |
experimental fiction
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modernist fiction ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Malone Dies
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Molloy ⓘ The Unnamable ⓘ |
| influenced |
experimental novelists
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postmodern literature ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
James Joyce
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modernist literature ⓘ |
| lastWorkPublicationYear | 1953 ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | modernism ⓘ |
| literarySignificance |
key work of existential literature
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landmark of twentieth-century fiction ⓘ |
| narrativeMode | first-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
bleak humor
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experimental narrative style ⓘ exploration of existence ⓘ exploration of identity ⓘ interior monologue ⓘ minimalist prose ⓘ unreliable narrators ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| publicationPeriod | late 1940s to early 1950s ⓘ |
| relatedWork | Waiting for Godot ⓘ |
| secondWork | Malone Dies ⓘ |
| setting | largely indeterminate locations ⓘ |
| style |
fragmented narrative
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repetitive motifs ⓘ sparse description ⓘ stream of consciousness ⓘ |
| theme |
consciousness
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death ⓘ existentialism ⓘ identity ⓘ language and its limits ⓘ memory ⓘ selfhood ⓘ |
| thirdWork | The Unnamable ⓘ |
| tone |
bleak
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darkly comic ⓘ |
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linked to: Samuel Beckett’s trilogy
linked to: Samuel Beckett’s trilogy
linked to: Samuel Beckett’s trilogy