Unraveling Samuel Backett’s Absurd Worlds: A Critical Exploration

Preety Priya; Vibhash Ranjan

Unraveling Samuel Backett’s Absurd Worlds: A Critical Exploration

Author(s)	Preety Priya, Vibhash Ranjan
Country	India
Abstract	This article pursues the theme that 'The Absurd' in Samuel Beckett's novels is revealed by means of narrative form, language and consciousness: all seemingly instruments for revealing existential displacement. Associated with the Theatre of the Absurd though he now is, Beckett’s novels — Murphy, Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable are more consistent and thorough-paced attempts at expressing absurdity in prose fiction. Deploying existential and absurdist philosophy, especially the ideas of meaninglessness, alienation, would-be stability of self to demonstrate how Beckett neutrally does not reflect on but practices the absurd within narrative innovations of his own. What the analysis demonstrates is how Beckett novels subvert traditional narrative expectations, avoiding linear progression, well rounded characters and a clear ending. In fragments he writes, repetitively testing the limits of the form and recursive of themes — writing just as circular in its thoughts as human thought is ultimately regressive reaching: after perhaps finding any meaning at all in it. Language, conventionally considered as a vehicle for communication, is revealed in Beckett’s works to be flawed: it has a tendency time and again to collapse into the contradictory, the speechless or self-negating. Through the use of destabilized narrative voices and language of the most minimalist sort, Beckett here foregrounds that contest between the will to talk (or write) and the futility in any articulation. Moreover, the play also exposes how Beckett’s characters are themselves inhabiting a threshold space — physically immobile and mentally active (both reflective of modern man’s condition within a universe that could not care less). The reader is also complicit in this ridiculous state of affairs, the texts themselves refusing to be interpreted and demanding that we make sense within (and from) lack, that we literally come to terms with indecision. “Finally the paper claims that Beckett’s novels reconstruction of modern the novels because absurdity becomes both philosophical question and a formal principal, so it offers another look on human existence and his identity in language boundaries of twentieth century.
Keywords	Expectations; Absurd, Existentialism, The Fragmented Narrative; Modernist fiction
Field	Sociology > Linguistic / Literature
Published In	Volume 17, Issue 1, January-June 2026
Published On	2026-01-30
Cite This	Unraveling Samuel Backett’s Absurd Worlds: A Critical Exploration - Preety Priya, Vibhash Ranjan - IJAIDR Volume 17, Issue 1, January-June 2026.

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