ABSTRACT
Another route to achieving narrative cohesion is inductive, accumulating the narrator’s descriptions of his psychological situations toward a composition of character description. To a large degree, Beckett’s narrated characters are what the narrator of The Unnamable describes as “puppets”, containers of diverse aspects of the narrated self. Beckett writes,
All these Murphys, Molloys and Malones do not fool me. They have made me waste my time, suffer for nothing, speak of them when, in order to stop speaking, I should have spoken of me and of me alone. But I just said I have spoken of me, am speaking of me … They never suffered my pains, their pains are nothing, compared to mine, a mere tittle of mine, the tittle I thought I could put from me, in order to witness it.
(Beckett, 2006b, p. 297)