Beckett s Malone Dies: A Postmodern Schizoid Voice

The present study attempts to mark out postmodern schizoid tendencies in Beckett‘s Malone Dies. Beckett‘s groundbreaking novel with its eccentric character, Malone, has a schizoid quality in treating concepts like self, language, and society which resonate attitude of postmodern thinkers like Deleuze, Guattari, and Derrida toward abovementioned concepts. Beckett in Malone Dies, like postmodernists, deconstructs the previously held, clear-cut and epistemological concepts of self and its integrity, demystifies the notions of adequacy and the refrentiality of language, and calls into question the coded social and oedipal myth by creating his antisocial, anti-Oedipal Malone and the character that Malone creates. Instead of a modernist paranoid character, the hero-narrator gives us several evidences of a postmodern schizoid person.